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authorAxel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>2022-04-11 00:18:04 +0200
committerAxel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>2022-04-11 00:18:04 +0200
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@@ -26,5 +26,17 @@ tt(-regex-match) operator.
If tt(BASH_REMATCH) is set, then the array tt(BASH_REMATCH) will be set
instead of tt(MATCH) and tt(match).
+
+Note that the tt(zsh/regex) module logic relies on the host system. The
+same var(expr) and var(regex) pair could produce different results on different
+platforms if a var(regex) with non-standard syntax is given.
+
+For example, no syntax for matching a word boundary is defined in the POSIX
+extended regular expression standard. GNU tt(libc) and BSD tt(libc) both provide
+such syntaxes as extensions (tt(\b) and tt([[:<:]])/tt([[:>:]]) respectively),
+but neither of these syntaxes is supported by both of these implementations.
+
+Refer to the manref(regcomp)(3) and manref(re_format)(7) manual pages on your
+system for locally-supported syntax.
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