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authorAndy Dougherty <doughera.lafayette.edu>1995-12-02 03:25:17 +0000
committerAndy Dougherty <doughera.lafayette.edu>1995-12-02 03:25:17 +0000
commit25f94b330371810ad4761e17a4e200e6752044c5 (patch)
treedb359228af3b637f3e3d66b7e60a7c80b3180328 /pod
parentf8881bd9b4aab880d830b06ff42f1da38fceee8a (diff)
downloadperl-25f94b330371810ad4761e17a4e200e6752044c5.tar.gz
This is patch.2b1d to perl5.002beta1.
cd to your perl source directory and type patch -p1 -N < patch.2b1a This patch includes patches for the following items: NETaa14710: Included bsdi_bsdos.sh hint file. pod/perlre.pod: Mention 32bit limit. Configure Updates. Update Socket.xs to version 1.5. This handles systems that might not have <sys/un.h>. Fix missing quotes in h2ph.PL These are each described in detail below, after the corresponding index line. Patch and enjoy, Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
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@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ The following standard quantifiers are recognized:
(If a curly bracket occurs in any other context, it is treated
as a regular character.) The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
-modifier to C<{1,}>, and the "?" modifier to C<{0,1}>. There is no limit to the
-size of n or m, but large numbers will chew up more memory.
+modifier to C<{1,}>, and the "?" modifier to C<{0,1}>. n and m are limited
+to integral values less than 65536.
By default, a quantified subpattern is "greedy", that is, it will match as
many times as possible without causing the rest pattern not to match. The