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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2009-12-21 11:44:35 -0700
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2009-12-22 11:44:37 +0100
commit0111a78fcc993bdfaa4b46112924c3a9751ecfa5 (patch)
treef9dc23978c71cd47fd18e36fff0613f8673b58e1 /pod/perlre.pod
parentc3c0aa283b73660f84ae7e190dcbbd607facb512 (diff)
downloadperl-0111a78fcc993bdfaa4b46112924c3a9751ecfa5.tar.gz
Fix up pods for \X
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 794a512050..7127de04d5 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -257,8 +257,7 @@ X<word> X<whitespace> X<character class> X<backreference>
\D Match a non-digit character
\pP Match P, named property. Use \p{Prop} for longer names.
\PP Match non-P
- \X Match eXtended Unicode "combining character sequence",
- equivalent to (?>\PM\pM*)
+ \X Match Unicode "eXtended grapheme cluster"
\C Match a single C char (octet) even under Unicode.
NOTE: breaks up characters into their UTF-8 bytes,
so you may end up with malformed pieces of UTF-8.
@@ -517,7 +516,6 @@ left parentheses have opened before it. Likewise \11 is a
backreference only if at least 11 left parentheses have opened
before it. And so on. \1 through \9 are always interpreted as
backreferences.
-
If the bracketing group did not match, the associated backreference won't
match either. (This can happen if the bracketing group is optional, or
in a different branch of an alternation.)