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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-06-01 08:24:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-06-01 08:24:40 +0000 |
| commit | f1cbbd6ecad59f8e4d9d331daa6642ebfd972ae1 (patch) | |
| tree | 42d16c97acb412b54556213cf116af85e410aadb /pod/perllocale.pod | |
| parent | 46836f5c247eb34869c545432b788a4a49f94ab5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f1cbbd6ecad59f8e4d9d331daa6642ebfd972ae1.tar.gz | |
further qualify references to "alphanumeric" (from Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6186
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perllocale.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perllocale.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perllocale.pod b/pod/perllocale.pod index 55ccf441fd..ddb5a6e710 100644 --- a/pod/perllocale.pod +++ b/pod/perllocale.pod @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ if you "use locale". a A b B c C d D e E a b c d e A B C D E -Here is a code snippet to tell what alphanumeric +Here is a code snippet to tell what "word" characters are in the current locale, in that locale's order: use locale; @@ -518,8 +518,9 @@ results, and so always obey the current C<LC_COLLATE> locale. In the scope of S<C<use locale>>, Perl obeys the C<LC_CTYPE> locale setting. This controls the application's notion of which characters are alphabetic. This affects Perl's C<\w> regular expression metanotation, -which stands for alphanumeric characters--that is, alphabetic and -numeric characters. (Consult L<perlre> for more information about +which stands for alphanumeric characters--that is, alphabetic, +numeric, and including other special characters such as the underscore or +hyphen. (Consult L<perlre> for more information about regular expressions.) Thanks to C<LC_CTYPE>, depending on your locale setting, characters like 'E<aelig>', 'E<eth>', 'E<szlig>', and 'E<oslash>' may be understood as C<\w> characters. |