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| author | Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com> | 2021-10-17 17:59:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2021-10-17 18:28:58 -0600 |
| commit | c2ad6dafc59d8d9369dce3e7a16dfe04c43872ef (patch) | |
| tree | ff27697afeaab8cbfd56536c163096bbead73c51 | |
| parent | 7ab72683be77c37dbd4c1d1194eccdc905d8ff88 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c2ad6dafc59d8d9369dce3e7a16dfe04c43872ef.tar.gz | |
perlop - clarify that hyphens are interpreted literally in tr with single quotes
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 1a85955c70..29fceb3116 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -2610,7 +2610,8 @@ of those; in other words, an lvalue. The characters delimitting I<SEARCHLIST> and I<REPLACEMENTLIST> can be any printable character, not just forward slashes. If they are single quotes (C<tr'I<SEARCHLIST>'I<REPLACEMENTLIST>'>), the only -interpolation is removal of C<\> from pairs of C<\\>. +interpolation is removal of C<\> from pairs of C<\\>, and hyphens are +interpreted literally rather than specifying a character range. Otherwise, a character range may be specified with a hyphen, so C<tr/A-J/0-9/> does the same replacement as |