--- str.pod 2002/04/01 08:32:54 1.33
+++ str.pod 2002/04/01 09:15:37 1.34
@@ -68,11 +68,11 @@
=head1 NAME
-B<Str> - String Library
+B<OSSP str> - String Handling
=head1 VERSION
-Str STR_VERSION_STR
+OSSP str STR_VERSION_STR
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@@ -92,15 +92,15 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-The B<Str> library is a generic string library written in ANSI C which
+B<OSSP str> is a generic string library written in ISO-C which
provides functions for handling, matching, parsing, searching and
-formatting of C strings. So it can be considered as a superset of POSIX
+formatting of ISO-C strings. So it can be considered as a superset of POSIX
string(3), but its main intention is to provide a more convinient and
compact API plus a more generalized functionality.
=head1 FUNCTIONS
-The following functions are provided by the B<Str> API:
+The following functions are provided by the B<OSSP str> API:
=over 4
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
=head2 Perl Regular Expressions
-The regular expressions used in B<Str> are more or less Perl compatible
+The regular expressions used in B<OSSP str> are more or less Perl compatible
(they are provided by a stripped down and built-in version of the
I<PCRE> library). So the syntax description in perlre(1) applies
and don't has to be repeated here again. For a deeper understanding
@@ -446,10 +446,10 @@
=item B<o>
-If the I<once> flag `B<o>' is specified, this indicates to the B<Str>
+If the I<once> flag `B<o>' is specified, this indicates to the B<OSSP str>
library that the whole I<pop> string is constant and that its internal
pre-processing (it is compiled into a deterministic finite automaton
-(DFA) internally) has to be done only once (the B<Str> library then
+(DFA) internally) has to be done only once (the B<OSSP str> library then
caches the DFA which corresponds to the I<pop> argument).
=item B<x>
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@
=head1 EXAMPLES
-In the following a few snippets of selected use cases of B<Str> are
+In the following a few snippets of selected use cases of B<OSSP str> are
presented:
=over 4
@@ -753,17 +753,18 @@
=head1 HISTORY
-The B<Str> library was written in November and December 1999 by Ralf
-S. Engelschall. As building blocks various existing code was used and
-recycled: for the str_token(3) implementation an anchient strtok(3)
-flavor from William Deich 1991 was cleaned up and adjusted. As the
-background parsing engine for str_parse(3) a heavily stripped down
-version of Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE)
-library (initially version 2.08 and now 3.8) was used. The str_format(3)
-implementation was based on Panos Tsirigotis' sprintf(3) code as
-adjusted by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) 1998. The formatting
-engine was stripped down and enhanced to support internal extensions
-which were required by str_format(3) and str_parse(3).
+B<OSSP str> was written in November and December 1999 by Ralf S.
+Engelschall for the B<OSSP> project. As building blocks various existing
+code was used and recycled: for the str_token(3) implementation an
+anchient strtok(3) flavor from William Deich 1991 was cleaned up
+and adjusted. As the background parsing engine for str_parse(3) a
+heavily stripped down version of Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible
+Regular Expression (PCRE) library (initially version 2.08 and now
+3.9) was used. The str_format(3) implementation was based on Panos
+Tsirigotis' sprintf(3) code as adjusted by the Apache Software
+Foundation (ASF) 1998. The formatting engine was stripped down and
+enhanced to support internal extensions which were required by
+str_format(3) and str_parse(3).
=head1 AUTHOR
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