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| author | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2001-11-16 12:11:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2001-11-16 12:11:14 +0000 |
| commit | 210b36aa2e9e009554be8970c3315c2658c0384f (patch) | |
| tree | 71bb13e291837569d86a3f2f5c17515ccc1b9610 /pod/perlretut.pod | |
| parent | d7ceb7fc1159206a67f149394fc7aa55f6b4f7dd (diff) | |
| download | perl-210b36aa2e9e009554be8970c3315c2658c0384f.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] Doc spellcheck + podcheck
From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@egb.elixus.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:49:05 -0800
Message-Id: <20011116064905.GA44092@egb.elixus.org>
Subject: [PATCH] podcheck+spellcheck, the rest of the story
From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@egb.elixus.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:42:20 -0800
Message-Id: <20011116084220.GA44295@egb.elixus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] podcheck+spellcheck, the rest of the story
From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:32:01 +0000
Message-Id: <20011116103200.F62891@plum.flirble.org>
(Applied after suitable de-mangling.)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13041
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlretut.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlretut.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 65dfb4782c..f4e9bb6440 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ to give them a chance to match. The last example points out that character classes are like alternations of characters. At a given character position, the first -alternative that allows the regexp match to succeed wil be the one +alternative that allows the regexp match to succeed will be the one that matches. =head2 Grouping things and hierarchical matching @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ are Alternations behave the same way in groups as out of them: at a given string position, the leftmost alternative that allows the regexp to -match is taken. So in the last example at tth first string position, +match is taken. So in the last example at the first string position, C<"20"> matches the second alternative, but there is nothing left over to match the next two digits C<\d\d>. So perl moves on to the next alternative, which is the null alternative and that works, since |