Actually the wording which leads in to the example would need to be
changed too.  Please find inline an ad-hoc updated patch.

 Internally this uses egrep on a file containing the  reformatted
-output  of ‘dpkg -l’ (four fields separated by one
space-character:
-status, package-name, installed version, description) so it
-will return packages whose tag-line matches, too.
+output  of 'dpkg -l' (four fields separated by tabs;
+status, package-name, installed version, short description) so it
+will return packages whose version or short description matches, too.

 Extended regular expression are allowed. For example,

-dlocate -l ’^.. libc5’
+ht=`echo -e '\011'` # codify horizontal tab
+dlocate -l "^..${ht}libc5"

 will list all the package names starting with ‘libc5’.

(Sorry for not downloading the latest sources and creating a proper
patch.)

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