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author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-12-19 10:53:58 -0700 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-12-19 17:54:27 -0700 |
commit | c8536afa2abc39d901062df19a839a4209513974 (patch) | |
tree | be3aa5db4fab64fe2d6bfbb77460ecf135a89cbe /dump.c | |
parent | 2c515f74c15beadabf104e8616a276474a99977f (diff) | |
download | perl-c8536afa2abc39d901062df19a839a4209513974.tar.gz |
dump.c: correct pod statement
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -239,11 +239,10 @@ then all chars below 255 will be treated as printable and will be output as literals. If PERL_PV_ESCAPE_FIRSTCHAR is set then only the first char of the -string will be escaped, regardles of max. If the string is utf8 and -the chars value is >255 then it will be returned as a plain hex -sequence. Thus the output will either be a single char, -an octal escape sequence, a special escape like C<\n> or a 3 or -more digit hex value. +string will be escaped, regardless of max. If the output is to be in hex, +then it will be returned as a plain hex +sequence. Thus the output will either be a single char, +an octal escape sequence, a special escape like C<\n> or a hex value. If PERL_PV_ESCAPE_RE is set then the escape char used will be a '%' and not a '\\'. This is because regexes very often contain backslashed |