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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-03-31 09:30:04 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-03-31 11:33:21 -0600 |
| commit | 43e59f7b885e66c2a874b2a383ecf6b2e6d96cba (patch) | |
| tree | 4bbd3dbcc34f6d60092a1374c281f716ed1805cc /pod/perlretut.pod | |
| parent | 1ca4ba9b233aa9d927c2f282a18e1da58f3d44fa (diff) | |
| download | perl-43e59f7b885e66c2a874b2a383ecf6b2e6d96cba.tar.gz | |
perlretut: Mention 'alert' for \a
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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 78b56361df..df0865b7a9 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ In addition to the metacharacters, there are some ASCII characters which don't have printable character equivalents and are instead represented by I<escape sequences>. Common examples are C<\t> for a tab, C<\n> for a newline, C<\r> for a carriage return and C<\a> for a -bell. If your string is better thought of as a sequence of arbitrary +bell (or alert). If your string is better thought of as a sequence of arbitrary bytes, the octal escape sequence, e.g., C<\033>, or hexadecimal escape sequence, e.g., C<\x1B> may be a more natural representation for your bytes. Here are some examples of escapes: |