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authorRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2013-09-29 21:51:30 -0400
committerRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2013-09-29 21:52:22 -0400
commit1ca12bda609083913fc4c1a8307d652dd6665207 (patch)
treee48c4773d4ce0eee5c2c55faa5fe28ff0323a3c9 /pod/perlre.pod
parent363e3e5ac1b9308ef8aa3e89f85a491d993e4e26 (diff)
downloadperl-1ca12bda609083913fc4c1a8307d652dd6665207.tar.gz
reword the description of what the /m flag does
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@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ L<perlop/"Gory details of parsing quoted constructs">.
X</m> X<regex, multiline> X<regexp, multiline> X<regular expression, multiline>
Treat string as multiple lines. That is, change "^" and "$" from matching
-the start or end of line only at the left and right ends of the string to
-matching them anywhere within the string.
+the start of the string's first line and the end of its last line to
+matching the start and end of each line within the string.
=item s
X</s> X<regex, single-line> X<regexp, single-line>