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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-10-09 15:14:53 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-10-09 15:14:53 +0000
commit95a6757bf43f1a045363dc9547e437320d8bb9d7 (patch)
treee31fe8a74a297772de8d1c8bfec51474229615cc /pod/perl5100delta.pod
parent63f834e4a70c91cae03749b1b4bd4882a25121ca (diff)
downloadperl-95a6757bf43f1a045363dc9547e437320d8bb9d7.tar.gz
Fix description of "." in unpack() in perl5100delta
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32082
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diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod
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@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ For consistency, C<A> in unpack() format now trims all Unicode whitespace
from the end of the string. Before perl 5.9.2, it used to strip only the
classical ASCII space characters.
+=head2 Byte/character count feature in unpack()
+
+A new unpack() template character, C<".">, returns the number of bytes or
+characters (depending on the selected encoding mode, see above) read so far.
+
=head2 The C<$*> and C<$#> variables have been removed
C<$*>, which was deprecated in favor of the C</s> and C</m> regexp
@@ -499,11 +504,6 @@ There are two new byte-order modifiers, C<E<gt>> (big-endian) and C<E<lt>>
characters and groups to force a certain byte-order for that type or group.
See L<perlfunc/pack> and L<perlpacktut> for details.
-=head2 Byte count feature in pack()
-
-A new pack() template character, C<".">, returns the number of characters
-read so far.
-
=head2 C<no VERSION>
You can now use C<no> followed by a version number to specify that you