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-% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.26 1997/01/23 16:17:53 roberto Exp roberto $
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+% $Id: manual.tex,v 1.27 1997/02/21 15:19:37 roberto Exp roberto $
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\documentstyle[fullpage,11pt,bnf]{article}
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Waldemar Celes
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\tecgraf\ --- Departamento de Inform\'atica --- PUC-Rio
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}
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-\date{\small \verb$Date: 1997/01/23 16:17:53 $}
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+\date{\small \verb$Date: 1997/02/21 15:19:37 $}
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\maketitle
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@@ -1718,10 +1718,12 @@ A character class followed by \verb'*' reads until a character that
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does not belong to the class, or end of file;
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since it can match a sequence of zero characteres, it never fails.%
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\footnote{
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-Notice that this behaviour is different from regular pattern matching,
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+Notice that the behavior of read patterns is different from
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+the regular pattern matching behavior,
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where a \verb'*' expands to the maximum length {\em such that\/}
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the rest of the pattern does not fail.
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-Therefore, there is no need for backtracking the reading.
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+With the read pattern behavior
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+there is no need for backtracking the reading.
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}
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A pattern item may contain sub-patterns enclosed in curly brackets,
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Roberto Ierusalimschy