DeleteToLineMatching

[Kyle Amon]

The 'DeleteToLineMatching' editing action does not seem to function
as documented.  In the cfengine Reference Manual, it says...

  DeleteToLineMatching quoted-regex 
      Delete lines from the current position, up to but not including
      a line matching the regular expression in the quoted string. If
      no line matches the given expression, a warning is only printed
      in verbose mode, but all edits are immediately abandoned.

Although it says "up to but not including," this seems not to be the
case since it doesn't work properly.  It seems to in fact include the
line matchine the regular expression, which is, of course, the exact
opposite of what is documented.

Someone please explain how I'm wrong here.  And if I'm not, either
the documentation needs to be modified such that is consistent with
behavior or this bug needs to be fixed.

-- Kyle

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