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| author | Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 1996-09-20 15:08:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> | 1996-09-20 15:08:33 +0100 |
| commit | 1fef88e72b0b21420614d87ecab0aaedf3725271 (patch) | |
| tree | 12e4d27d75a69c3c3bfe2e5be19ce1298d39af74 /lib/Getopt/Long.pm | |
| parent | 3c8c04f28a9e6693f95217cf81ec5f2cdb2bb4d2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-1fef88e72b0b21420614d87ecab0aaedf3725271.tar.gz | |
Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Getopt/Long.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Getopt/Long.pm | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Getopt/Long.pm b/lib/Getopt/Long.pm index 3fa9c8b10f..190b609571 100644 --- a/lib/Getopt/Long.pm +++ b/lib/Getopt/Long.pm @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ followed by an argument specifier. Values for argument specifiers are: =over 8 -=item <none> +=item E<lt>noneE<gt> Option does not take an argument. The option variable will be set to 1. @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ The option name is always the true name, not an abbreviation or alias. The option name may actually be a list of option names, separated by "|"s, e.g. "foo|bar|blech=s". In this example, "foo" is the true name -op this option. If no linkage is specified, options "foo", "bar" and +of this option. If no linkage is specified, options "foo", "bar" and "blech" all will set $opt_foo. Option names may be abbreviated to uniqueness, depending on @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ configuration variable $Getopt::Long::autoabbrev. =head2 Non-option call-back routine -A special option specifier, <>, can be used to designate a subroutine +A special option specifier, E<lt>E<gt>, can be used to designate a subroutine to handle non-option arguments. GetOptions will immediately call this subroutine for every non-option it encounters in the options list. This subroutine gets the name of the non-option passed. @@ -285,18 +285,18 @@ In GNU or POSIX format, option names and values can be combined: --bar= -> $opt_bar = '' --bar=-- -> $opt_bar = '--' -Example of using variabel references: +Example of using variable references: $ret = &GetOptions ('foo=s', \$foo, 'bar=i', 'ar=s', \@ar); With command line options "-foo blech -bar 24 -ar xx -ar yy" this will result in: - $bar = 'blech' + $foo = 'blech' $opt_bar = 24 @ar = ('xx','yy') -Example of using the <> option specifier: +Example of using the E<lt>E<gt> option specifier: @ARGV = qw(-foo 1 bar -foo 2 blech); &GetOptions("foo=i", \$myfoo, "<>", \&mysub); |