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authorAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>2000-09-26 09:36:14 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2000-10-03 00:05:06 +0000
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Documentation glitch in magic autoincrement.
Message-ID: <20000926173614.4356.qmail@foad.org> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7121
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@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ you increment a variable that is numeric, or that has ever been used in
a numeric context, you get a normal increment. If, however, the
variable has been used in only string contexts since it was set, and
has a value that is not the empty string and matches the pattern
-C</^[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]*$/>, the increment is done as a string, preserving each
+C</^[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]*\z/>, the increment is done as a string, preserving each
character within its range, with carry:
print ++($foo = '99'); # prints '100'