1Star includes a pattern matcher based on the algorithm
2presented by Martin Richards in:
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4"A Compact Function for Regular Expression Pattern Matching",
5Software-Practice and Experience, Vol. 9, 527-534 (1979)
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7Several changes have been made to the original source which has been
8written in BCPL:
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10'/'	is replaced by	'!'		(to allow UNIX filenames)
11'(',')' are replaced by	'{', '}'
12'\''	is replaced by	'\\'		(UNIX compatible quote)
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14Character classes have been added to allow "[<character list>]"
15to be used.
16Start of line '^' and end of line '$' have been added.
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18A description is available in the man page for the match program.
19It may be found in man/man1/match.1
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