From fde0925214c41300b50c8136d35031615ecaa6bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:38:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cmdline-opts/gen.pl: fix option matching to improve
 references

Previously it could mistakenly match partial names when there are
options that start with the same prefix, leading to the wrong references
used.

Closes #8299
---
 docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl b/docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl
index a7d013ae8b..296096a04a 100755
--- a/docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl
+++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ sub printdesc {
         if($d =~ /^[^ ]/) {
             for my $k (keys %optlong) {
                 my $l = manpageify($k);
-                $d =~ s/--$k([^a-z0-9_-])/$l$1/;
+                $d =~ s/--$k([^a-z0-9_-])(\W)/$l$1$2/;
             }
         }
         # quote "bare" minuses in the output
-- 
2.47.3