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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1999-08-04 07:59:05 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1999-08-04 07:59:05 +0000
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parentfd1e013efb606b51dc27fba846b1bedb38910a76 (diff)
downloadperl-423cee853811c26846bd1948939b85f9866dfb4a.tar.gz
Introduce the charnames pragma.
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_58] Free \C (for named chars), move to \O From: Ilya Zakharevich <[9]ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> To: Chip Salzenberg <[11]chip@perlsupport.com> Cc: Mailing list Perl5 <[12]perl5-porters@perl.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 05:44:05 -0400 Message-Id: <[13]199907311407.IAA25042@localhost.frii.com> From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> To: Mailing list Perl5 <perl5-porters@perl.org> Subject: [PATCH 5.005_58] Named characters in Perl Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:25:40 -0400 Message-ID: <19990802192540.B24407@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@3916
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diff --git a/lib/utf8.pm b/lib/utf8.pm
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@@ -71,9 +71,8 @@ attempt to canonicalize variable names for you.)
=item *
Regular expressions match characters instead of bytes. For instance,
-"." matches a character instead of a byte. (However, the C<\C> pattern
-is provided to force a match a single byte ("C<char>" in C, hence
-C<\C>).)
+"." matches a character instead of a byte. (However, the C<\O> pattern
+is provided to force a match a single byte ("octet", hence C<\O>).)
=item *