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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-07-15 13:34:50 -0600
committerDavid Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>2010-07-17 21:50:48 -0400
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perlrebackslash: Nits
Signed-off-by: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
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@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ Either C<\gI<N>> (starting in Perl 5.10.0), or C<\I<N>> (old-style) where I<N>
is a positive (unsigned) decimal number of any length is an absolute reference
to a capturing group.
-I<N> refers to the Nth set of parentheses - so C<\gI<N>> refers to whatever has
-been matched by that set of parenthesis. Thus C<\g1> refers to the first
+I<N> refers to the Nth set of parentheses, so C<\gI<N>> refers to whatever has
+been matched by that set of parentheses. Thus C<\g1> refers to the first
capture group in the regex.
The C<\gI<N>> form can be equivalently written as C<\g{I<N>}>