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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-06-01 08:24:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-06-01 08:24:40 +0000 |
| commit | f1cbbd6ecad59f8e4d9d331daa6642ebfd972ae1 (patch) | |
| tree | 42d16c97acb412b54556213cf116af85e410aadb /pod/perlre.pod | |
| parent | 46836f5c247eb34869c545432b788a4a49f94ab5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f1cbbd6ecad59f8e4d9d331daa6642ebfd972ae1.tar.gz | |
further qualify references to "alphanumeric" (from Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6186
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlre.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlre.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index a82ab32b73..15e58c1cf9 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -254,15 +254,15 @@ backspace are control characters. All characters with ord() less than =item graph -Any alphanumeric or punctuation character. +Any alphanumeric or punctuation (special) character. =item print -Any alphanumeric or punctuation character or space. +Any alphanumeric or punctuation (special) character or space. =item punct -Any punctuation character. +Any punctuation (special) character. =item xdigit @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ use for a pattern. Simply quote all non-"word" characters: $pattern =~ s/(\W)/\\$1/g; +(If C<use locale> is set, then this depends on the current locale.) Today it is more common to use the quotemeta() function or the C<\Q> metaquoting escape sequence to disable all metacharacters' special meanings like this: |