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author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-01 22:15:04 -0600 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-01 22:21:44 -0600 |
commit | 72606c45fe94a8e6dfaf6ad8698f227ece152195 (patch) | |
tree | 4aad25dc05a9c224864538dc7ef9620ad4340529 | |
parent | 1e2a213df405afd579850b5ecf53ab85e0bd0fbe (diff) | |
download | perl-72606c45fe94a8e6dfaf6ad8698f227ece152195.tar.gz |
perlrequick: /o no longer needed
This is wrong, and doesn't belong in an introductory document
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod index 62ea5330eb..d543389d48 100644 --- a/pod/perlrequick.pod +++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod @@ -370,22 +370,7 @@ no string left to it, so it matches 0 times. =head2 More matching There are a few more things you might want to know about matching -operators. In the code - - $pattern = 'Seuss'; - while (<>) { - print if /$pattern/; - } - -Perl has to re-evaluate C<$pattern> each time through the loop. If -C<$pattern> won't be changing, use the C<//o> modifier, to only -perform variable substitutions once. If you don't want any -substitutions at all, use the special delimiter C<m''>: - - @pattern = ('Seuss'); - m/@pattern/; # matches 'Seuss' - m'@pattern'; # matches the literal string '@pattern' - +operators. The global modifier C<//g> allows the matching operator to match within a string as many times as possible. In scalar context, successive matches against a string will have C<//g> jump from match |