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| author | M.J.T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> | 1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-09-05 00:00:00 +1200 |
| commit | b7e30b65e77616e7336a6cda54d9c3d5935d0cfc (patch) | |
| tree | 9f7ad25a5719a6609156a8b4807fac71fceae3c2 | |
| parent | 3b93f881ad0c1760299956b68c3750a683e7952b (diff) | |
| download | perl-b7e30b65e77616e7336a6cda54d9c3d5935d0cfc.tar.gz | |
perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options
ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote
> man perlop :
>
> entry in the perlfunc manpage.) A failed match
> normally resets the search position to the beginning
> of the string, but you can avoid that by adding the
> "c" modifier (e.g. m//gc). Modifying the target
> string also resets the search position.
Doh! Didn't see that. My excuse is that a search for "/c" doesn't find
it. And since all other modifiers are referred to as C</g> etc, I
submit the following micropatch.
Credited: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>
Credited: John Redford <jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com>
p5p-msgid: E0wwnqc-00057s-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 2709a9eaa2..56859029bf 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ each time it matches, and FALSE when it eventually runs out of matches. the search at that point. You can actually find the current match position of a string or set it using the pos() function; see L<perlfunc/pos>.) A failed match normally resets the search position to -the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that by adding the "c" +the beginning of the string, but you can avoid that by adding the C</c> modifier (e.g. C<m//gc>). Modifying the target string also resets the search position. |