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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-09-12 10:47:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2010-09-25 00:47:02 -0700 |
| commit | 06ee63cd8792bb62ac70a693a5f6e7af1a16ea05 (patch) | |
| tree | 8db04213747f02dcac49713cff15abb6ac8de1be /pod/perlrecharclass.pod | |
| parent | 9deebca376903e87a5f8496ce3baf418d3e9d0b7 (diff) | |
| download | perl-06ee63cd8792bb62ac70a693a5f6e7af1a16ea05.tar.gz | |
perlrecharclass.pod: Add caveat about multi-char sequences
Inside a bracketed character class, any \N{name} which expands to more
than one character will have only the first one considered. This
doesn't need named character sequences, as user-defined aliases have
long been able to be multi-char.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrecharclass.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrecharclass.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod index 7fcb92d421..5aa93486d5 100644 --- a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod +++ b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod @@ -350,8 +350,10 @@ C<\r>, C<\t>, and C<\x> -are also special and have the same meanings as they do outside a bracketed character -class. +are also special and have the same meanings as they do outside a +bracketed character class. (However, inside a bracketed character +class, if C<\N{I<NAME>}> expands to a sequence of characters, only the first +one in the sequence is used, with a warning.) Also, a backslash followed by two or three octal digits is considered an octal number. |