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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-03-12 21:58:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-03-12 21:58:19 +0000 |
| commit | 693596a8ade915849b475fb0f9eac213ea06edd5 (patch) | |
| tree | d7cf4c11b07f159c31d7793ce3c2c6783610cfb4 /pod/perlre.pod | |
| parent | 7edb8f2b4268bb093066522fea77b0df6cc903bd (diff) | |
| download | perl-693596a8ade915849b475fb0f9eac213ea06edd5.tar.gz | |
Better wording for (?|...) in perlre, from a suggestion by Ruud.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@30556
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index 99cba6889e..66935d25f3 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -722,12 +722,10 @@ X<(?|)> X<Branch reset> This is the "branch reset" pattern, which has the special property that the capture buffers are numbered from the same starting point -in each branch. It is available starting from perl 5.10. +in each alternation branch. It is available starting from perl 5.10. -Normally capture buffers in a pattern are numbered sequentially, -from left to right. Inside this construct that behaviour is -overridden so that the capture buffers are shared between all the -branches and take their values from the branch that matched. +Capture buffers are numbered from left to right, but inside this +construct the numbering is restarted for each branch. The numbering within each branch will be as normal, and any buffers following this construct will be numbered as though the construct |