The Single UNIX ® Specification, Version 2
Copyright © 1997 The Open Group

 NAME

locs - stop regular expression matching in a string (LEGACY)

 SYNOPSIS



#include <regexp.h>

extern char *locs;

 DESCRIPTION

Refer to regexp().

 APPLICATION USAGE

This variable is kept for historical reasons, but may be withdrawn in a future issue.

New applications should use fnmatch(), glob(), regcomp() and regexec(), which provide full internationalised regular expression functionality compatible with the ISO POSIX-2 standard, as described in the XBD specification, Regular Expressions .

DERIVATION

Derived from Issue 2 of the SVID.

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