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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-06-29 16:47:32 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-06-29 16:47:32 +0000
commitf9a3ff1adf732e369e54b362e55660c9bb204bd4 (patch)
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Another typo fix.
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@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ your regular expression into (slightly) more readable parts. The C<#>
character is also treated as a metacharacter introducing a comment,
just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that if you want real
whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern (outside a character
-class, where they are unaffected by C</x>), that you'll either have to
-escape them (using backslashes or C<\Q \E>) or encode them using octal
+class, where they are unaffected by C</x>), then you'll either have to
+escape them (using backslashes or C<\Q...\E>) or encode them using octal
or hex escapes. Taken together, these features go a long way towards
making Perl's regular expressions more readable. Note that you have to
be careful not to include the pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has