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/* no getopt needed */
+//usage:#define expr_trivial_usage
+//usage: "EXPRESSION"
+//usage:#define expr_full_usage "\n\n"
+//usage: "Print the value of EXPRESSION to stdout\n"
+//usage: "\n"
+//usage: "EXPRESSION may be:\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 | ARG2 ARG1 if it is neither null nor 0, otherwise ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 & ARG2 ARG1 if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise 0\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 < ARG2 1 if ARG1 is less than ARG2, else 0. Similarly:\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 <= ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 = ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 != ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 >= ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 > ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 + ARG2 Sum of ARG1 and ARG2. Similarly:\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 - ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 * ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 / ARG2\n"
+//usage: " ARG1 % ARG2\n"
+//usage: " STRING : REGEXP Anchored pattern match of REGEXP in STRING\n"
+//usage: " match STRING REGEXP Same as STRING : REGEXP\n"
+//usage: " substr STRING POS LENGTH Substring of STRING, POS counted from 1\n"
+//usage: " index STRING CHARS Index in STRING where any CHARS is found, or 0\n"
+//usage: " length STRING Length of STRING\n"
+//usage: " quote TOKEN Interpret TOKEN as a string, even if\n"
+//usage: " it is a keyword like 'match' or an\n"
+//usage: " operator like '/'\n"
+//usage: " (EXPRESSION) Value of EXPRESSION\n"
+//usage: "\n"
+//usage: "Beware that many operators need to be escaped or quoted for shells.\n"
+//usage: "Comparisons are arithmetic if both ARGs are numbers, else\n"
+//usage: "lexicographical. Pattern matches return the string matched between\n"
+//usage: "\\( and \\) or null; if \\( and \\) are not used, they return the number\n"
+//usage: "of characters matched or 0."
+
#include "libbb.h"
#include "xregex.h"