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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-06-22 14:40:17 -0600
committerJesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>2010-06-28 22:30:04 -0400
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perlre: Add heading to separate unrelated paragraphs
I don't know where the text for the stuff below this new heading should go, but it clearly doesn't belon with what came before, so add a heading to separate them, perhaps rearranging things later
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@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ their punctuation char equivalents, however at the trade-off that you
have to tell perl when you want to use them.
X</p> X<p modifier>
+=head2 Quoting metacharacters
+
Backslashed metacharacters in Perl are alphanumeric, such as C<\b>,
C<\w>, C<\n>. Unlike some other regular expression languages, there
are no backslashed symbols that aren't alphanumeric. So anything