Max Bowsher wrote: > f wrote: > > I just reinstalled "less" from the cygwin site. > > It still doesn't seem to anchor to word boundaries > > using regex(3) rules i.e. \<SomeWord\> doesn't > > match anything, as does <SomeWord>. I read > > a posting suggesing a solution by using perl > > syntax (apparently): > > > > /\bSomeWord\b > > > > That works, but is there a known reason why > > the regex notation doesn't work? > > Because less is linked with pcre(3), not regex(3). > > Max.
Thanks, Max. The posting I saw did indeed mention linking Perl, but I thought that meant added features rather than different syntax. It looks like I better accelerate my picking up of Perl. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/