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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-04-01 22:05:28 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-04-01 22:21:44 -0600
commit1e2a213df405afd579850b5ecf53ab85e0bd0fbe (patch)
tree2d4dc04e62f9186927638846a27936e62034b891 /pod/perlrequick.pod
parent7f04f24fa828ed5a779f2e66f2f7b57151a72529 (diff)
downloadperl-1e2a213df405afd579850b5ecf53ab85e0bd0fbe.tar.gz
perlrequick: Capitalize Perl when used as a noun
This is for consistency with other pods
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod
index 557cd49106..62ea5330eb 100644
--- a/pod/perlrequick.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ contains that word:
"Hello World" =~ /World/; # matches
In this statement, C<World> is a regex and the C<//> enclosing
-C</World/> tells perl to search a string for a match. The operator
+C</World/> tells Perl to search a string for a match. The operator
C<=~> associates the string with the regex match and produces a true
value if the regex matched, or false if the regex did not match. In
our case, C<World> matches the second word in C<"Hello World">, so the
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ statement to be true:
"Hello World" =~ /o W/; # matches, ' ' is an ordinary char
"Hello World" =~ /World /; # doesn't match, no ' ' at end
-perl will always match at the earliest possible point in the string:
+Perl will always match at the earliest possible point in the string:
"Hello World" =~ /o/; # matches 'o' in 'Hello'
"That hat is red" =~ /hat/; # matches 'hat' in 'That'
@@ -235,11 +235,11 @@ boundary.
We can match different character strings with the B<alternation>
metacharacter C<'|'>. To match C<dog> or C<cat>, we form the regex
-C<dog|cat>. As before, perl will try to match the regex at the
+C<dog|cat>. As before, Perl will try to match the regex at the
earliest possible point in the string. At each character position,
-perl will first try to match the first alternative, C<dog>. If
-C<dog> doesn't match, perl will then try the next alternative, C<cat>.
-If C<cat> doesn't match either, then the match fails and perl moves to
+Perl will first try to match the first alternative, C<dog>. If
+C<dog> doesn't match, Perl will then try the next alternative, C<cat>.
+If C<cat> doesn't match either, then the match fails and Perl moves to
the next position in the string. Some examples:
"cats and dogs" =~ /cat|dog|bird/; # matches "cat"
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ operators. In the code
print if /$pattern/;
}
-perl has to re-evaluate C<$pattern> each time through the loop. If
+Perl has to re-evaluate C<$pattern> each time through the loop. If
C<$pattern> won't be changing, use the C<//o> modifier, to only
perform variable substitutions once. If you don't want any
substitutions at all, use the special delimiter C<m''>: