From abde5ebd708efc0305d78a3370c9a3f0dcfbd657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reuben Thomas Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 23:34:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Improve [[:alnum:]] example. * doc/grep.in.1: Improve wording of [[:alnum:]] example. * doc/grep.texi: ditto. --- doc/grep.in.1 | 9 ++++----- doc/grep.texi | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index e9b4589..6026157 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -676,11 +676,10 @@ and .BR [:xdigit:]. For example, .B [[:alnum:]] -means -.BR [0\-9A\-Za\-z] , -except the latter form depends upon the C locale and the -\s-1ASCII\s0 character encoding, whereas the former is independent -of locale and character set. +means the character class of numbers and +letters in the current locale. In the C locale and \s-1ASCII\s0 +character set encoding, this is the same as +.BR [0-9A-Za-z] . (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket expression.) diff --git a/doc/grep.texi b/doc/grep.texi index da27aa1..1613c78 100644 --- a/doc/grep.texi +++ b/doc/grep.texi @@ -1257,9 +1257,9 @@ Hexadecimal digits: @code{0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F a b c d e f}. @end table -For example, @samp{[[:alnum:]]} means @samp{[0-9A-Za-z]}, except the latter -depends upon the @samp{C} locale and the @sc{ascii} character -encoding, whereas the former is independent of locale and character set. +For example, @samp{[[:alnum:]]} means the character class of numbers and +letters in the current locale. In the @samp{C} locale and @sc{ascii} +character set encoding, this is the same as @samp{[0-9A-Za-z]}. (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket expression.) -- 1.7.1