From: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:36:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: regex.3: Desoupify regexec() description
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regex.3: Desoupify regexec() description

Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index bedb97e877..47fe661d2d 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -105,12 +105,10 @@ contains
 .SS Matching
 .BR regexec ()
 is used to match a null-terminated string
-against the precompiled pattern buffer,
-.IR preg .
-.I nmatch
-and
-.I pmatch
-are used to provide information regarding the location of any matches.
+against the compiled pattern buffer in
+.IR *preg ,
+which must have been initialised with
+.BR regexec ().
 .I eflags
 is the
 bitwise OR