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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-12 19:49:19 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-12 19:54:41 -0600 |
| commit | 9645299c5cba107a7c8cb0abd6b23360d3df6b59 (patch) | |
| tree | db8c59d6aabf8bcdb91971c54c8b02a42f5feaf1 /pod/perlrebackslash.pod | |
| parent | 0bd5a82d65c4e6a2376313bca55dc77d7694c82d (diff) | |
| download | perl-9645299c5cba107a7c8cb0abd6b23360d3df6b59.tar.gz | |
perlrebackslash: Update for 5.14 changes
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diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod index 670f3e3144..72f3f42ef5 100644 --- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod +++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod @@ -220,8 +220,7 @@ octal digits. One problem with this form is that it can look exactly like an old-style backreference (see L</Disambiguation rules between old-style octal escapes and backreferences> below.) You can avoid this by making the first of the three digits always a -zero, but that makes \077 the largest ordinal unambiguously specifiable by this -form. +zero, but that makes \077 the largest code point specifiable. In some contexts, a backslash followed by two or even one octal digits may be interpreted as an octal escape, sometimes with a warning, and because of some @@ -365,8 +364,9 @@ New in perl 5.10.0 are the classes C<\h> and C<\v> which match horizontal and vertical whitespace characters. The exact set of characters matched by C<\d>, C<\s>, and C<\w> varies -depending on various pragma and regular expression modifiers. See -L<perlre>. +depending on various pragma and regular expression modifiers. It is +possible to restrict the match to the ASCII range by using the C</a> +regular expression modifier. See L<perlrecharclass>. The uppercase variants (C<\W>, C<\D>, C<\S>, C<\H>, and C<\V>) are character classes that match, respectively, any character that isn't a |