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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-05-25 13:28:39 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-05-25 13:28:39 +0000
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Document new escapes in perldelta
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@@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ that can now be converted to
which is much more efficient. (Yves Orton)
+=item Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak
+
+Regular expressions now recognize the C<\v> and C<\h> escapes, that match
+vertical and horizontal whitespace, respectively. C<\V> and C<\H>
+logically match their complements.
+
+C<\R> matches a generic linebreak, that is, horizontal whitespace, plus
+the multi-character sequence C<"\x0D\x0A">.
+
=back
=head2 The C<_> prototype