diff options
| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-11-11 21:12:01 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-11-11 21:12:01 +0000 |
| commit | efdf3af0101f6674227449ca5d7f23c6fc6c46e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 40bbbe104da899f6396d21cb7f0693ece1518bda /README.hpux | |
| parent | b29a8fb934f89ae86dc789c5763065c077e692f8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-efdf3af0101f6674227449ca5d7f23c6fc6c46e5.tar.gz | |
Copy the s// information of README.hpux also to the perlrun.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7652
Diffstat (limited to 'README.hpux')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.hpux | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/README.hpux b/README.hpux index e12c60d352..e850441095 100644 --- a/README.hpux +++ b/README.hpux @@ -243,22 +243,22 @@ fix is currently available. =head2 perl -P and // -In HP-UX perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the +In HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the -P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like - s/foo//; + s/foo//; will turn into illegal code - s/foo + s/foo -The workaround is to use some other quoting characters than /, -like for example ! +The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">, +like for example C<"!">: - s!foo!!; + s!foo!!; =head1 AUTHOR |