1Force PATTERN to match only whole words.  A "whole word" is a
2substring which either starts at the beginning or the record or is
3preceded by a non-word constituent character.  Similarly, the
4substring must either end at the end of the record or be followed by a
5non-word constituent character.  Word-constituent characters are
6alphanumerics (as defined by the current locale) and the underscore
7character.  Note that the non-word constituent characters must
8surround the match; they cannot be counted as errors.
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10Set cost of incorrect characters to NUM.  Note that a deletion (a
11missing character) and an insertion (an extra character) together
12constitute a substituted character, but the cost will be the that of a
13deletion and an insertion added together.  Thus, if the const of a
14substitution is set to be larger than the sum of the costs of deletion
15and insertion, direct substitutions will never be done.
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17Set the record delimiter regular expression to PATTERN.  The text
18between two delimiters, before the first delimiter, and after the last
19delimiter is considered to be a record.  The default record delimiter
20is the regexp "\n", so by default a record is a line.  PATTERN can be
21any regular expression that does not match the empty string.  For
22example, using -d "^From " defines mail messages as records in a
23Mailbox format file.
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