[PATCH v6 4/8] regex.3: Improve REG_STARTEND

[наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>]

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Explicitly spell out the ranges involved. The original wording always
confused me, but it's actually very sane.

Remove "this doesn't change R_NOTBOL & R_NEWLINE" ‒ so does it change
R_NOTEOL? No. That's weird and confusing.

String largeness doesn't matter, known-lengthness does.

Explicitly spell out the influence on returned matches
(relative to string, not start of range).

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
---
 man3/regex.3 | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index e3dd72a74..a9bec59a9 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -131,23 +131,26 @@ .SS Matching
 above).
 .TP
 .B REG_STARTEND
-Use
-.I pmatch[0]
-on the input string, starting at byte
-.I pmatch[0].rm_so
-and ending before byte
-.IR pmatch[0].rm_eo .
+Match
+.RI [ string " + " pmatch[0].rm_so ", " string " + " pmatch[0].rm_eo )
+instead of
+.RI [ string ", " string " + \fBstrlen\fP(" string )).
 This allows matching embedded NUL bytes
 and avoids a
 .BR strlen (3)
-on large strings.
-It does not use
+on known-length strings.
+If any matches are returned
+.RB ( REG_NOSUB
+wasn't passed to
+.BR regcomp (),
+the match succeeded, and
 .I nmatch
-on input, and does not change
-.B REG_NOTBOL
-or
-.B REG_NEWLINE
-processing.
+> 0), they overwrite
+.I pmatch
+as usual, and the match offsets remain relative to
+.IR string
+(not
+.IR string " + " pmatch[0].rm_so ).
 This flag is a BSD extension, not present in POSIX.
 .SS Match offsets
 Unless
-- 
2.30.2


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