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authorph10 <ph10@6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069>2018-06-17 14:13:28 +0000
committerph10 <ph10@6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069>2018-06-17 14:13:28 +0000
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Typos in documentation and comments noted by Jason Hood.
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ page.
2. Like Perl, PCRE2 allows repeat quantifiers on parenthesized assertions, but
they do not mean what you might think. For example, (?!a){3} does not assert
that the next three characters are not "a". It just asserts that the next
-character is not "a" three times (in principle: PCRE2 optimizes this to run the
+character is not "a" three times (in principle; PCRE2 optimizes this to run the
assertion just once). Perl allows some repeat quantifiers on other assertions,
for example, \b* (but not \b{3}), but these do not seem to have any use.
</P>
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ The \Q...\E sequence is recognized both inside and outside character classes.
</P>
<P>
7. Fairly obviously, PCRE2 does not support the (?{code}) and (??{code})
-constructions. However, there is support PCRE2's "callout" feature, which
-allows an external function to be called during pattern matching. See the
+constructions. However, PCRE2 does have a "callout" feature, which allows an
+external function to be called during pattern matching. See the
<a href="pcre2callout.html"><b>pcre2callout</b></a>
documentation for details.
</P>
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ each alternative branch of a lookbehind assertion can match a different length
of string. Perl requires them all to have the same length.
<br>
<br>
-(b) From PCRE2 10.23, back references to groups of fixed length are supported
+(b) From PCRE2 10.23, backreferences to groups of fixed length are supported
in lookbehinds, provided that there is no possibility of referencing a
non-unique number or name. Perl does not support backreferences in lookbehinds.
<br>