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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)> | 2010-07-18 12:28:14 -0600 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-09-16 15:09:26 +0200 |
| commit | c99e91e919b4bb89bab7829a9026ee01b1fff2a1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5b069e6bd24b358e42e94e01b97424d5a09d9bfc /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | eb06eac93f0120092363c6c7ba87bb7054e76844 (diff) | |
| download | perl-c99e91e919b4bb89bab7829a9026ee01b1fff2a1.tar.gz | |
Fix /[\8]/ to not match NULL; give correct warning
8 and 9 are not treated as alphas in parsing as opposed to illegal
octals.
This also adds tests to verify that 1-3 digits work in char classes.
I created an isOCTAL macro in case that lookup gets moved to a bit
field, as I plan to do later, for speed.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlop.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlop.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 08da209fc0..cb0a291d92 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1141,9 +1141,6 @@ the left with zeros to make three digits. For larger ordinals, either use C<\o{}> , or convert to someething else, such as to hex and use C<\x{}> instead. -A backslash followed by a non-octal digit in a bracketed character class -(C<[\8]> or C<[\9]>) will be interpreted as a NULL character and the digit. - Having fewer than 3 digits may lead to a misleading warning message that says that what follows is ignored. For example, C<"\128"> in the ASCII character set is equivalent to the two characters C<"\n8">, but the warning C<Illegal octal |