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| author | Philip Newton <pne@cpan.org> | 2001-07-01 11:37:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-07-02 12:49:51 +0000 |
| commit | ad83b128fe70663b30fda889dc59fe236e6794de (patch) | |
| tree | 6644ac0f37934cbf4773fb2a4524baae7662fb8d /pod | |
| parent | 61c0c206f1e81b79c3d9bf6a93163ffbcdfbc167 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ad83b128fe70663b30fda889dc59fe236e6794de.tar.gz | |
Suggestion for mnemonic for $^N
Message-Id: <200107010733.KAA03920@taas.iki.fi>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11073
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index d70f22d1bd..817f1e5fb5 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ This variable is read-only and dynamically scoped to the current BLOCK. The text matched by the used group most-recently closed (i.e. the group with the rightmost closing parenthesis) of the last successful search -pattern. This is primarly used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text +pattern. (Mnemonic: the (possibly) Nested parenthesis that most +recently closed.) + +This is primarly used inside C<(?{...})> blocks for examining text recently matched. For example, to effectively capture text to a variable (in addition to C<$1>, C<$2>, etc.), replace C<(...)> with |