From 39ceedf5e04f131af8432ecc7c3e3503b560203b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:14:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] The regexp pattern characters ^ and $ should be explained as
 matching at the beginning and end of the input string, not the beginning and
 end of "a line", since Postgres does not allow them to match at newline
 characters in the data.

---
 doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 071a457bcb7..d8dde6270ae 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.55 2001/03/15 01:07:51 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.56 2001/03/25 18:14:31 tgl Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="functions">
  <title>Functions and Operators</title>
@@ -1205,9 +1205,9 @@
     expression), an empty set of <literal>()</literal> (matching the
     null string), a <firstterm>bracket expression</firstterm> (see
     below), <literal>.</literal> (matching any single character),
-    <literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of
-    a line), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end
-    of a line), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the
+    <literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of the
+    input string), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end
+    of the input string), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the
     characters <literal>^.[$()|*+?{\</literal> (matching that
     character taken as an ordinary character), a <literal>\</literal>
     followed by any other character (matching that character taken as
-- 
2.39.5