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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-12-11 16:51:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2012-12-11 18:10:18 -0700 |
| commit | 3d24912184050c3b750afa33180de19735f6b960 (patch) | |
| tree | 5db30930889db05a144b544448435c9010968f4f /pod/perlvar.pod | |
| parent | 4b1e7f06143ab88e9b000eed23ae71e75b7c24b8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-3d24912184050c3b750afa33180de19735f6b960.tar.gz | |
perlvar.pod: Slight clarification, typo
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 998ea422d4..5b9b056eeb 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ be better for something. :-) Setting C<$/> to a reference to an integer, scalar containing an integer, or scalar that's convertible to an integer will attempt to read records instead of lines, with the maximum record size being the -referenced integer. So this: +referenced integer number of characters. So this: local $/ = \32768; # or \"32768", or \$var_containing_32768 open my $fh, "<", $myfile or die $!; @@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ set, you'll get the record back in pieces. Trying to set the record size to zero or less will cause reading in the (rest of the) whole file. On VMS only, record reads bypass PerlIO layers and any associated -buffering,so you must not mix record and non-record reads on the +buffering, so you must not mix record and non-record reads on the same filehandle. Record mode mixes with line mode only when the same buffering layer is in use for both modes. |