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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-03 18:58:45 +0000 |
commit | 492a8376eb5b8df3e0aa82a2a70345b283138423 (patch) | |
tree | 8a136c0e449ebac6ea6e35898b5ae06788800c41 /pod/perltrap.pod | |
parent | d6a71824a1e9d5ec2e4050f5e51f00e0aed29f1b (diff) | |
download | perl-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')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perltrap.pod | 10 |
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. |