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| author | Wolfgang Laun <Wolfgang.Laun@alcatel.at> | 2007-03-14 08:56:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-03-14 07:51:57 +0000 |
| commit | 85dd5c8b1ea878e2c60e931a7dfea76be9cfe46d (patch) | |
| tree | 4ca95d5305124b97f86349f74b437bd90f7ef901 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | a35a87e73d19b61371e17b22fda65883c899839f (diff) | |
| download | perl-85dd5c8b1ea878e2c60e931a7dfea76be9cfe46d.tar.gz | |
perlfunc.pod (ref results), perlop.pod (qr// result)
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 411414c815..e02ad41f50 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1056,11 +1056,15 @@ This operator quotes (and possibly compiles) its I<STRING> as a regular expression. I<STRING> is interpolated the same way as I<PATTERN> in C<m/PATTERN/>. If "'" is used as the delimiter, no interpolation is done. Returns a Perl value which may be used instead of the -corresponding C</STRING/imosx> expression. +corresponding C</STRING/imosx> expression. The returned value is a +normalized version of the original pattern. It magically differs from +a string containing the same characters: ref(qr/x/) returns "Regexp", +even though dereferencing the result returns undef. For example, $rex = qr/my.STRING/is; + print $rex; # prints (?si-xm:my.STRING) s/$rex/foo/; is equivalent to |