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| author | James E Keenan <jkeenan@cpan.org> | 2020-07-17 21:08:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-07-30 15:24:42 -0600 |
| commit | 25cf87333c1d02676a477d8393457b0024eb4a0a (patch) | |
| tree | 934958ecfd62fd63e6ab71bbe17aca3d76399b7a | |
| parent | 56249513acd108e9cb2a871d24b6ebfdc56c3503 (diff) | |
| download | perl-25cf87333c1d02676a477d8393457b0024eb4a0a.tar.gz | |
perlrecharclass.pod: Make clear that $, has been assigned to
Correct typo spotted by Dan Book.
For: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17892
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrecharclass.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod index ee2f14d8ff..5802819c21 100644 --- a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod +++ b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod @@ -529,7 +529,9 @@ place before the bracketed class is parsed: $, = "\t| "; $a =~ m'[$,]'; # single-quotish: matches '$' or ',' $a =~ q{[$,]}' # same - $a =~ m/[$,]/; # double-quotish: matches "\t", "|", or " " + $a =~ m/[$,]/; # double-quotish: Because we made an + # assignment to $, above, this now + # matches "\t", "|", or " " Characters that may carry a special meaning inside a character class are: C<\>, C<^>, C<->, C<[> and C<]>, and are discussed below. They can be |