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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-15 02:41:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-15 02:41:58 +0000 |
| commit | 2072e2ebd308690ed7ca6a7bf8c91f02415d7aed (patch) | |
| tree | 051c5ca4ce1910143237cc92caf129a28ce98436 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | f9f4790fc02ee8e9c1e953973bc4c1cb491bac45 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2072e2ebd308690ed7ca6a7bf8c91f02415d7aed.tar.gz | |
[win32] merge changes#922,944,949,965,970 from maintbranch
p4raw-link: @970 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 5362f8886d6c3fb908c863d910b1a158479419e2
p4raw-link: @965 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 8472ac73d6d802946d766b5459d2d9c334889a3f
p4raw-link: @949 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 4b161ae29769b4a3eb304314bbbfe5969417c8ec
p4raw-link: @944 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: fa366f5fbba3f21113f9677105663454a3e0b678
p4raw-link: @922 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: 68daf0ababdc0e913335a90c4361b792b2715301
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@978
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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index e4088ec9c4..538745dd6a 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ C<$a>. If C<$b> is negative, then C<$a % $b> is C<$a> minus the smallest multiple of C<$b> that is not less than C<$a> (i.e. the result will be less than or equal to zero). +Note than when C<use integer> is in scope "%" give you direct access +to the modulus operator as implemented by your C compiler. This +operator is not as well defined for negative operands, but it will +execute faster. + Binary "x" is the repetition operator. In a scalar context, it returns a string consisting of the left operand repeated the number of times specified by the right operand. In a list context, if the left |