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authorYves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>2006-11-02 13:35:10 +0100
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-11-02 12:26:47 +0000
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Add more backtracking control verbs to regex engine (?CUT), (?ERROR)
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@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ similar to non-greedy matching, except instead of using a '?' as the modifier
the '+' is used. Thus C<?+>, C<*+>, C<++>, C<{min,max}+> are now legal
quantifiers. (Yves Orton)
+=item Backtracking control verbs
+
+The regex engine now supports a number of special purpose backtrack
+control verbs: (?COMMIT), (?CUT), (?ERROR) and (?FAIL). See L<perlre>
+for their descriptions.
+
=back
=head2 The C<_> prototype