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 Appendix A Extended regular expressions
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 The only difference between basic and extended regular expressions is in
 the behavior of a few characters: `?', `+', parentheses, braces (`{}'),
 and `|'.  While basic regular expressions require these to be escaped
 if you want them to behave as special characters, when using extended
 regular expressions you must escape them if you want them _to match a
 literal character_.  `|' is special here because `\|' is a GNU
 extension - standard basic regular expressions do not provide its
 functionality.
 
 Examples:
 `abc?'
      becomes `abc\?' when using extended regular expressions.  It
      matches the literal string `abc?'.
 
 `c\+'
      becomes `c+' when using extended regular expressions.  It matches
      one or more `c's.
 
 `a\{3,\}'
      becomes `a{3,}' when using extended regular expressions.  It
      matches three or more `a's.
 
 `\(abc\)\{2,3\}'
      becomes `(abc){2,3}' when using extended regular expressions.  It
      matches either `abcabc' or `abcabcabc'.
 
 `\(abc*\)\1'
      becomes `(abc*)\1' when using extended regular expressions.
      Backreferences must still be escaped when using extended regular
      expressions.
 

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