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author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2017-02-16 19:30:08 -0700 |
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committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2017-02-20 09:08:54 -0700 |
commit | f1dc5bb2995ecccb5fa0346ca80f01f09aaa3e9d (patch) | |
tree | afd9d8fdb26794366402e77cf9ac8a2dc2b74f4b /pod/perlrequick.pod | |
parent | 52b4b0e0361aa3b508faa5976f08af4626cd49ae (diff) | |
download | perl-f1dc5bb2995ecccb5fa0346ca80f01f09aaa3e9d.tar.gz |
Pods: Standardize on one pattern mod style
There were about 40 cases in pods where //m is used to represent the
pattern modifier 'm', but nearly 400 where /m is used. Convert to the
most common representation.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlrequick.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrequick.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod index 3cda44ab2d..5832cfa359 100644 --- a/pod/perlrequick.pod +++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod @@ -381,9 +381,9 @@ no string left to it, so it matches 0 times. There are a few more things you might want to know about matching operators. -The global modifier C<//g> allows the matching operator to match +The global modifier C</g> allows the matching operator to match within a string as many times as possible. In scalar context, -successive matches against a string will have C<//g> jump from match +successive matches against a string will have C</g> jump from match to match, keeping track of position in the string as it goes along. You can get or set the position with the C<pos()> function. For example, @@ -401,9 +401,9 @@ prints A failed match or changing the target string resets the position. If you don't want the position reset after failure to match, add the -C<//c>, as in C</regex/gc>. +C</c>, as in C</regex/gc>. -In list context, C<//g> returns a list of matched groupings, or if +In list context, C</g> returns a list of matched groupings, or if there are no groupings, a list of matches to the whole regex. So @words = ($x =~ /(\w+)/g); # matches, |