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authorDagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>2019-03-18 15:47:26 +0000
committerDagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>2019-03-18 15:48:39 +0000
commit8dbb2d9565f118c5bb1b0fdd1438830bb0f0022b (patch)
treee040d715ff4c34d15404ca933bf44e66a71abbfd /pod/perlvar.pod
parent0275405c4fd00a8e74de313c3fd5a82c0a1ecbea (diff)
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perlvar: improve POD markup for $-[n] example
Closing and re-opening the C<> arond the I<> leads to weird formatting in man/text mode. Instead nest the I<> inside the C<>.
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
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@@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ This variable is read-only and dynamically-scoped.
X<@-> X<@LAST_MATCH_START>
C<$-[0]> is the offset of the start of the last successful match.
-C<$-[>I<n>C<]> is the offset of the start of the substring matched by
+C<$-[I<n>]> is the offset of the start of the substring matched by
I<n>-th subpattern, or undef if the subpattern did not match.
Thus, after a match against C<$_>, C<$&> coincides with C<substr $_, $-[0],