commit fca854fedeee2803eccc964cdf3c03d0c9255a2a parent 79e76b127206608c7c55f6b791bcd9844c9bdcdd Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:34:41 +0200 regex: improve README Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> Diffstat:
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diff --git a/regex/README b/regex/README @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ -This is a NFA-based regex implementation. It closely adheres to the POSIX -Extended Regular Expressions specification [0]. Matching is guaranteed to run in -linear time, and various optimisations have been implemented to ensure good -performance on most inputs. +The regex module provides an implementation of regular expressions which adheres +closely to the POSIX Extended Regular Expressions (ERE) specification[0]. This +implementation computes matches in linear time. By default, matches will be found anywhere in the given string. The ^ and $ characters can be used to anchor the match to the beginning or end of the