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| author | Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.org> | 2002-03-29 16:53:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-29 17:21:22 +0000 |
| commit | 25cf8c221694f204b8dcdb15a864ea224c360401 (patch) | |
| tree | 7118f4c1d9781e0e4be9181fb4834399b3e15a12 /pod/perlretut.pod | |
| parent | 471505cc5beed1a51617bf50cddf9bd18ee2824b (diff) | |
| download | perl-25cf8c221694f204b8dcdb15a864ea224c360401.tar.gz | |
Re: [DOC PATCH] Regex \G and POSIX restrictions
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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 4ea9ecc497..f0b5d1d389 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -1403,7 +1403,8 @@ off. C<\G> allows us to easily do context-sensitive matching: The combination of C<//g> and C<\G> allows us to process the string a bit at a time and use arbitrary Perl logic to decide what to do next. -Currently, the C<\G> anchor only works at the beginning of a pattern. +Currently, the C<\G> anchor is only fully supported when used to anchor +to the start of the pattern. C<\G> is also invaluable in processing fixed length records with regexps. Suppose we have a snippet of coding region DNA, encoded as |