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-====== 2.4.2 Regular Expressions ======
+====== 2.4.3 Regular Expressions ======
 In order to search for spelling variants, different forms of a lemma or else, you need to formulate RegEx expressions in ANNIS. For this, you put your query in between slashes.
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 Accordingly, the system for querying is different. If you query for ''/man/'' on the token level, you will find exactly one occurrence, namely the token //man//, because all other tokens contain more than those three characters, e.g. //manually// contains five more characters.
-If you query for //man// on the message level, you will find nothing, because ANNIS will search for a whole message that contains only these three characters. In order to actually find the word you are looking for, you have to query for "any characters (''.*'') followed by the string //man// followed by any characters" (the function "any characters" consists of the character full stop that stands for //any character// as shown above. The asterisk stands for an endless repetition as explained in the next section). Such a string will look like:
+If you query for //man// on the message level, you will find nothing, because ANNIS will search for a whole message that contains only these three characters. In order to actually find the word you are looking for, you have to query for "any characters (''.*'') followed by the string //man// followed by any characters" (the function //any characters// consists of the character full stop that stands for //any character// as shown above. The asterisk stands for an endless repetition as explained in the next section). Such a string will look like:
 ''msg=/.*man.*/''