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Utilities that process regular expressions shall support Basic Regular Expressions and Extended Regular Expressions as specified in POSIX 1003.1-2001 (ISO/IEC 9945-2003), with the following exceptions:
Range expression (such as [a-z]) can be based on code point order instead of collating element order.
Equivalence class expression (such as [=a=]) and multi-character collating element expression (such as [.ch.]) are optional.
Handling of a multi-character collating element is optional.
This affects at least the following utilities:
It also affects the behavior of interfaces in the base libraries, including at leastregexec() (see regexec)
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