Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.27-1 Severity: normal regexec description in manpages-dev is fairly misleading on the contents of pmatch elements (and particularly pmatch[0]) after a successful match: "Each rm_so element that is not -1 indicates the start offset of the next largest substring match within the string."
The real situation is much better described in manpages-posix-dev, to which sadly there is no "SEE ALSO" reference: "... pmatch[i].rm_so shall be the byte offset of the beginning and pmatch[i].rm_eo shall be one greater than the byte offset of the end of substring i. (Subexpression i begins at the ith matched open parenthesis, counting from 1.) Offsets in pmatch[0] identify the substring that corresponds to the entire regular expression." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
