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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2010-07-18 13:12:39 -0600 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-07-19 01:04:59 -0400 |
| commit | e1f120a9bcedababe219d448b4b0cb0b1153e992 (patch) | |
| tree | 277d8935fce639a5c65becbe4b692db976540987 /pod/perldiag.pod | |
| parent | 388a738468888624b9ee18ce319fa7082b2df529 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e1f120a9bcedababe219d448b4b0cb0b1153e992.tar.gz | |
pods: mention \o{}, 3 octal digits
This patch adds a mention of \o{} to perlre to avoid the backreference
ambiguities, and uses 3 octal digits in an example, and suggests using 3
digits where 2 were suggested before.
Signed-off-by: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldiag.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 9f9fe4b553..91664571b2 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -3799,8 +3799,8 @@ backreferences), but using 0 does not make sense. (F) You used something like C<\7> in your regular expression, but there are not at least seven sets of capturing parentheses in the expression. If you -wanted to have the character with value 7 inserted into the regular expression, -prepend a zero to make the number at least two digits: C<\07> +wanted to have the character with ordinal 7 inserted into the regular expression, +prepend zeroes to make it three digits long: C<\007> The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |