From 9a55225d8b9d9a385ab71bf30989810055debb64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Cowburn <salathe@php.net>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:02:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Delimiter cannot be backslash. Grammar.

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@293304 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml b/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml
index 4a07c707a6..88f81ddc5d 100644
--- a/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml
+++ b/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
      <title>Delimiters</title>
      <para>
       When using the PCRE functions, it is required that the pattern is enclosed
-      in <emphasis>delimiters</emphasis>. A delimiter can be any non-alphanumeric,
-      non-whitespace character.
+      by <emphasis>delimiters</emphasis>. A delimiter can be any non-alphanumeric,
+      non-backslash, non-whitespace character.
      </para>
      <para>
       Often used delimiters are forward slashes (<literal>/</literal>), hash
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@
       </informalexample>
      </para>
      <para>
-      If the delimiter needs to be matched inside the pattern it will have to be
+      If the delimiter needs to be matched inside the pattern it must be
       escaped using a backslash. If the delimiter appears often inside the
-      pattern, it is a good idea choosing another delimiter to increase
+      pattern, it is a good idea to choose another delimiter in order to increase
       readability.
       <informalexample>
        <programlisting>
@@ -57,12 +57,12 @@
         #http://#
        </programlisting>
       </informalexample>
-      The <function>preg_quote</function> function may be used to inject a string
-      into a pattern and its second parameter allows to specify the chosen
-      delimiter so it will be escaped as well.
+      The <function>preg_quote</function> function may be used to escape a string
+      for injection into a pattern and its optional second parameter may be used 
+      to specify the delimiter to be escaped.
      </para>
      <para>
-      In addition to the aforementioned delimiters, it is also possible using
+      In addition to the aforementioned delimiters, it is also possible to use
       bracket style delimiters where the opening and closing brackets are the
       starting and ending delimiter, respectively.
       <informalexample>