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authorKarl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>2010-03-27 23:06:59 -0600
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org>2010-03-28 15:57:17 +0200
commit9f5650a8ec47c75b463d95214aa5d6d9d837290e (patch)
tree0ef147788db32127d0b023003c79a53175476ec5 /pod/perlrequick.pod
parent418e7b041a50a0f6a3f1a824f7b10ba435fb78b1 (diff)
downloadperl-9f5650a8ec47c75b463d95214aa5d6d9d837290e.tar.gz
Clarify that some examples are for ASCII machines
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diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod
index 7abd895e8a..4b5e19a0fb 100644
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+++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ for a carriage return. Arbitrary bytes are represented by octal
escape sequences, e.g., C<\033>, or hexadecimal escape sequences,
e.g., C<\x1B>:
- "1000\t2000" =~ m(0\t2) # matches
- "cat" =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches, but a weird way to spell cat
+ "1000\t2000" =~ m(0\t2) # matches
+ "cat" =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches in ASCII, but a weird way to spell cat
Regexes are treated mostly as double quoted strings, so variable
substitution works: