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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000
commit492a8376eb5b8df3e0aa82a2a70345b283138423 (patch)
tree8a136c0e449ebac6ea6e35898b5ae06788800c41 /pod/perltrap.pod
parentd6a71824a1e9d5ec2e4050f5e51f00e0aed29f1b (diff)
downloadperl-492a8376eb5b8df3e0aa82a2a70345b283138423.tar.gz
whitespace and readabiliti nits in the pods (from Michael G Schwern
and Robin Barker) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5493
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perltrap.pod')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod
index f278fa0929..e528254e0e 100644
--- a/pod/perltrap.pod
+++ b/pod/perltrap.pod
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ executed.) See L<perlvar>.
=item *
-$E<lt>I<digit>E<gt> does not refer to fields--it refers to substrings matched
+$<I<digit>> does not refer to fields--it refers to substrings matched
by the last match pattern.
=item *
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ basically incompatible with C.)
The concatenation operator is ".", not the null string. (Using the
null string would render C</pat/ /pat/> unparsable, because the third slash
would be interpreted as a division operator--the tokenizer is in fact
-slightly context sensitive for operators like "/", "?", and "E<gt>".
+slightly context sensitive for operators like "/", "?", and ">".
And in fact, "." itself can be the beginning of a number.)
=item *
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ you might expect to do not.
=item *
-The E<lt>FHE<gt> construct is not the name of the filehandle, it is a readline
+The <FH> construct is not the name of the filehandle, it is a readline
operation on that handle. The data read is assigned to $_ only if the
file read is the sole condition in a while loop:
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ behave differently in perl4 vs. perl5, because the packages don't exist.
$a=1;$b=2;$c=3;$var=4;
print "$a::$b::$c ";
print "$var::abc::xyz\n";
-
+
# perl4 prints: 1::2::3 4::abc::xyz
# perl5 prints: 3
@@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Since version 5.002, Perl uses sigaction() under SysV.
=item * (SysV)
-Under SysV OSes, C<seek()> on a file opened to append C<E<gt>E<gt>> now does
+Under SysV OSes, C<seek()> on a file opened to append C<<< >> >>> now does
the right thing w.r.t. the fopen() manpage. e.g., - When a file is opened
for append, it is impossible to overwrite information already in
the file.