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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-02-05 16:17:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-02-09 10:13:59 -0700 |
| commit | 8129baca5dd762540c807db6ddf8d2e9fa4121b2 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d31863c0b1e9786d230244c280e4af88757a20c /pod/perlrebackslash.pod | |
| parent | 67addccf238c3d67d84f7dc1f5b4a2e791bf68da (diff) | |
| download | perl-8129baca5dd762540c807db6ddf8d2e9fa4121b2.tar.gz | |
perrebackslash, perlrecharclass: Note locale effects
This adds text to specify what happens under 'use locale'.
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diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod index cc72a1f14e..98435e5b8c 100644 --- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod +++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod @@ -618,6 +618,9 @@ C<\R> can match a sequence of more than one character, it cannot be put inside a bracketed character class; C</[\R]/> is an error; use C<\v> instead. C<\R> was introduced in perl 5.10.0. +Note that this does not respect any locale that might be in effect; it +matches according to the platform's native character set. + Mnemonic: none really. C<\R> was picked because PCRE already uses C<\R>, and more importantly because Unicode recommends such a regular expression metacharacter, and suggests C<\R> as its notation. |