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A PATTERN is a string of characters that specifies a set of
possible strings of characters that are said to MATCH the
pattern. Most characters in patterns stand for themselves,
but there are metacharacters: "." that matches any
character, "*" that along with the previous character, matches
any number of repetitions of it (including none), "^" for
beginning of line, "$" for end of line, and characters in
brackets "[]" to match any of the characters. The special
sense of metacharacters and of the delimiters in which the
pattern is enclosed can always be turned off by preceeding
them with the escape character "\".
See also "hs", "hg", "hx" for uses of patterns.
For the use of patterns in line numbers, type "hscan".
For examples of pattern matches, type "hpatex".