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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2010-10-30 15:23:11 -0600
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2010-10-31 12:21:05 -0700
commite486b3ccda3754fd159530607148c92cbfcbddf8 (patch)
tree6eb0d408af5f3921e1663291315eb0c8d67b32d2 /pod
parentd35dd6c678badc24d545f8b7b7a3ebdf0fb0b355 (diff)
downloadperl-e486b3ccda3754fd159530607148c92cbfcbddf8.tar.gz
Nits in re pods
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlrebackslash.pod5
-rw-r--r--pod/perlrecharclass.pod2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
index 642acd6730..9bab13844a 100644
--- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
@@ -367,8 +367,9 @@ New in perl 5.10.0 are the classes C<\h> and C<\v> which match horizontal
and vertical whitespace characters.
The uppercase variants (C<\W>, C<\D>, C<\S>, C<\H>, and C<\V>) are
-character classes that match any character that isn't a word character,
-digit, whitespace, horizontal whitespace nor vertical whitespace.
+character classes that match, respectively, any character that isn't a
+word character, digit, whitespace, horizontal whitespace, or vertical
+whitespace.
Mnemonics: I<w>ord, I<d>igit, I<s>pace, I<h>orizontal, I<v>ertical.
diff --git a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
index 1b7c6cf2e6..3329d60808 100644
--- a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ UTF-8 format, or the locale or EBCDIC code page that is in effect includes them.
=back
It is worth noting that C<\d>, C<\w>, etc, match single characters, not
-complete numbers or words. To match a number (that consists of integers),
+complete numbers or words. To match a number (that consists of digits),
use C<\d+>; to match a word, use C<\w+>.
=head3 \N