Summary

This chapter has looked at regular expressions in depth. The regexp(3) set of routines truly enhances programs that need the flexible pattern matching that regular expressions provide.

The next chapter introduces interprocess communications. This will lead you into the topics of message queues, semaphores, and shared memory.

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