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authorJim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org>2007-11-18 11:01:13 -0700
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-11-19 10:58:03 +0000
commite15dad31518e417fb393c47e2ea49139c989feee (patch)
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downloadperl-e15dad31518e417fb393c47e2ea49139c989feee.tar.gz
rc1 patch - delta, comment nits
Message-ID: <4740E059.30808@gmail.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32401
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diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod
index b37a7dcf95..b3c14d6463 100644
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+++ b/pod/perl5100delta.pod
@@ -111,10 +111,10 @@ nested balanced angle brackets:
$ # end of line
/x
-Note, users experienced with PCRE will find that the Perl implementation
-of this feature differs from the PCRE one in that it is possible to
-backtrack into a recursed pattern, whereas in PCRE the recursion is
-atomic or "possessive" in nature. (Yves Orton)
+PCRE users should note that Perl's recursive regex feature allows
+backtracking into a recursed pattern, whereas in PCRE the recursion is
+atomic or "possessive" in nature. As in the example above, you can
+add (?>) to control this selectively. (Yves Orton)
=item Named Capture Buffers
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ It's possible to backreference to a named buffer with the C<< \k<NAME> >>
syntax. In code, the new magical hashes C<%+> and C<%-> can be used to
access the contents of the capture buffers.
-Thus, to replace all doubled chars, one could write
+Thus, to replace all doubled chars with a single copy, one could write
s/(?<letter>.)\k<letter>/$+{letter}/g
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ released.
=item Aho-Corasick start-point optimisation
When a pattern starts with a trie-able alternation and there aren't
-better optimisations available the regex engine will use Aho-Corasick
+better optimisations available, the regex engine will use Aho-Corasick
matching to find the start point. (Yves Orton)
=back