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| author | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2021-07-19 19:57:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Bruce Hill <bruce@bruce-hill.com> | 2021-07-19 19:57:59 -0700 |
| commit | cc84c3d7916640b75ca4dc0785f9b1f417df1664 (patch) | |
| tree | 81af5d71f4376154796636307c1b9e74ebd91c66 /bp.1 | |
| parent | 711fe47a7f651f38e090c9a20ecef11feba6f705 (diff) | |
Made escape sequence handling stricter: no longer supporting arbitrary
characters, only special escapes like \n, hex sequences like \x0a, octal
sequences like \012, and backslashes \\
Diffstat (limited to 'bp.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bp.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ with one or two patterns. \f[B]bp\f[R] is designed around this fact. The default mode for bp patterns is \[lq]string pattern mode\[rq]. In string pattern mode, all characters are interpreted literally except -for the backslash (\f[B]\[rs]\f[R]), which may be followed by a bp -pattern (see the \f[B]PATTERNS\f[R] section below). +for the backslash (\f[B]\[rs]\f[R]), which may be followed by an escape +or a bp pattern (see the \f[B]PATTERNS\f[R] section below). Optionally, the bp pattern may be terminated by a semicolon (\f[B];\f[R]). .SH PATTERNS |