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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-11-07 12:14:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2020-11-14 21:41:00 -0700 |
| commit | 1c137c72d5dc07332a55a4895542d2b805d4684e (patch) | |
| tree | a20a5849f46bd4e9a6d4fb4bbce300255bbad718 /pod/perlop.pod | |
| parent | cfe2ff853c23d79ea3a2677abd7a55bafc8e717f (diff) | |
| download | perl-1c137c72d5dc07332a55a4895542d2b805d4684e.tar.gz | |
perlop: Note tr/// delimiters may be any printables
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 1387dd6978..51303be3a2 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -2584,7 +2584,8 @@ Unless the C</r> option is used, the string specified with C<=~> must be a scalar variable, an array element, a hash element, or an assignment to one of those; in other words, an lvalue. -If the characters delimiting I<SEARCHLIST> and I<REPLACEMENTLIST> +The characters delimitting I<SEARCHLIST> and I<REPLACEMENTLIST> +can be any printable character, not just forward slashes. If they are single quotes (C<tr'I<SEARCHLIST>'I<REPLACEMENTLIST>'>), the only interpolation is removal of C<\> from pairs of C<\\>. |