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authorTim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000
committerTim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>1997-09-05 00:00:00 +0000
commit5db417f7cafcc6c30c8205e213a6072c4a67d513 (patch)
tree2ca45eb32b236529f762d55e0ad36a3fe12998cd /pod/perltrap.pod
parenta99b1639d2d2c568cdd3a5785a8b9e472c03bca2 (diff)
downloadperl-5db417f7cafcc6c30c8205e213a6072c4a67d513.tar.gz
minor fix for perltrap.pod
(this is the same change as commit 9bf4ea843f7631689691908b2ccde8f571b18cde, but as applied)
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod
index 9382789969..02abc3b03b 100644
--- a/pod/perltrap.pod
+++ b/pod/perltrap.pod
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Curly brackets are required on C<if>s and C<while>s.
=item *
-Variables begin with "$" or "@" in Perl.
+Variables begin with "$", "@" or "%" in Perl.
=item *
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ There's no switch statement. (But it's easy to build one on the fly.)
=item *
-Variables begin with "$" or "@" in Perl.
+Variables begin with "$", "@" or "%" in Perl.
=item *
@@ -1451,9 +1451,7 @@ Everything else.
=over 5
-=item * Unclassified
-
-C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value
+=item * C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value
If the file doit.pl has:
@@ -1474,6 +1472,14 @@ Running doit.pl gives the following:
Same behavior if you replace C<do> with C<require>.
+=item * C<split> on empty string with LIMIT specified
+
+ $string = '';
+ @list = split(/foo/, $string, 2)
+
+Perl4 returns a one element list containing the empty string but Perl5
+returns an empty list.
+
=back
As always, if any of these are ever officially declared as bugs,