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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-06-18 11:41:18 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-08-02 09:24:52 -0600 |
| commit | 8b312c40887a546e5b64c68725d4232ebd3e5eb2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4229423f7097ef162ff890c49af3afbb045a4370 | |
| parent | 59f4a9a341b78358835e8023bd17b6faaf0d1186 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8b312c40887a546e5b64c68725d4232ebd3e5eb2.tar.gz | |
perlop:clarify wording
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index b7a1c7b309..983e141477 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1489,7 +1489,9 @@ otherwise to Unicode. =back B<NOTE>: Unlike C and other languages, Perl has no C<\v> escape sequence for -the vertical tab (VT - ASCII 11), but you may use C<\ck> or C<\x0b>. (C<\v> +the vertical tab (VT, which is 11 in both ASCII and EBCDIC), but you may +use C<\ck> or +C<\x0b>. (C<\v> does have meaning in regular expression patterns in Perl, see L<perlre>.) The following escape sequences are available in constructs that interpolate, |