[PATCH v5 8/8] regex.3: Further clarify the sole purpose of REG_NOSUB

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Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man3/regex.3 | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index ca0ab83df..66d9c6596 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -96,16 +96,14 @@ .SS Compilation
 searches using this pattern buffer will be case insensitive.
 .TP
 .B REG_NOSUB
-Do not report position of matches.
-The
-.I nmatch
-and
-.I pmatch
+Only report overall success:
 .BR regexec ()
-arguments will be ignored for this purpose (but
+will only use
 .I pmatch
-may still be used for
-.BR REG_STARTEND ).
+for
+.BR REG_STARTEND ,
+and ignore
+.IR nmatch .
 .TP
 .B REG_NEWLINE
 Match-any-character operators don't match a newline.
-- 
2.30.2

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