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authorKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2017-02-24 11:02:31 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>2017-03-01 10:13:07 -0700
commit83c3106baf778ae52314eadd19ac8a04e9ac12ce (patch)
treec8046de4d23301be444cdc7e7047a098a4c1dd47
parentfe7d7ed30f61366a4cfdd0edc6051ffc736a572a (diff)
downloadperl-83c3106baf778ae52314eadd19ac8a04e9ac12ce.tar.gz
perlfunc: Fix awkward wording
-rw-r--r--pod/perlfunc.pod4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 88d30a55fd..d8e1b58fa6 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2295,8 +2295,8 @@ always parses its argument (or L<C<$_>|perlvar/$_> if EXPR is omitted)
as a string of independent bytes.
If called when S<C<use utf8>> is in effect, the string will be assumed
-to be encoded in UTF-8, and C<evalbytes> will make a temporary
-downgraded to non-UTF-8 copy to work from. If this is not possible
+to be encoded in UTF-8, and C<evalbytes> will make a temporary copy to
+work from, downgraded to non-UTF-8. If this is not possible
(because one or more characters in it require UTF-8), the C<evalbytes>
will fail with the error stored in C<$@>.