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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-09-06 00:10:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-09-06 00:10:40 +0000 |
| commit | 65774b4473ec9b4f766aa257cf2e463c09b82b51 (patch) | |
| tree | 35c59e04b4db7af027ae8dd6addaada967b4b1b6 /pod/perldiag.pod | |
| parent | 9d47228de4e01a8a1507f781857c80c42d746f87 (diff) | |
| download | perl-65774b4473ec9b4f766aa257cf2e463c09b82b51.tar.gz | |
optional warning on join(/foo/...) (reworked suggested patch
by Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4083
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldiag.pod')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 10808ff516..1c07a31fa6 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ your signed integers. See L<perlfunc/unpack>. by Perl. This combination appears in an interpolated variable or a C<'>-delimited regular expression. +=item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s" + +(W) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string, +like in the first argument to C<join>. Perl will treat the true +or false result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string, +which is probably not what you had in mind. + =item %s (...) interpreted as function (W) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator followed |