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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
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whitespace and readabiliti nits in the pods (from Michael G Schwern
and Robin Barker) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5493
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+++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ way is to use HTML::FormatText which not only removes HTML but also
attempts to do a little simple formatting of the resulting plain text.
Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like
-C<s/E<lt>.*?E<gt>//g>, but that fails in many cases because the tags
+C<< s/<.*?>//g >>, but that fails in many cases because the tags
may continue over line breaks, they may contain quoted angle-brackets,
or HTML comment may be present. Plus folks forget to convert
entities, like C<&lt;> for example.
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ the same as the startform() method.
=head2 How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
-Use the B<E<lt>SELECTE<gt>> and B<E<lt>OPTIONE<gt>> tags. The CGI.pm
+Use the B<< <SELECT> >> and B<< <OPTION> >> tags. The CGI.pm
module (available from CPAN) supports this widget, as well as many
others, including some that it cleverly synthesizes on its own.
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ format after minor transliterations:
=head2 How do I return the user's mail address?
-On systems that support getpwuid, the $E<lt> variable and the
+On systems that support getpwuid, the $< variable and the
Sys::Hostname module (which is part of the standard perl distribution),
you can probably try using something like this: