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| author | Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.org> | 1998-06-12 03:26:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-06-12 07:01:20 +0000 |
| commit | 0c815be9f490bd7db5177b102e9ec25d74b97f4f (patch) | |
| tree | c2efa43f10fd7ef1bd2cbcfc4ddf2363a060e1be /pod | |
| parent | e91177edb0beae74fd07fb1ec08a528ab1fb63c2 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0c815be9f490bd7db5177b102e9ec25d74b97f4f.tar.gz | |
a tweaked version of:
Message-Id: <l03130300b1a6143078cd@[194.222.64.89]>
Subject: Re: Misparsing s///x
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1121
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlre.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index 8fb582074c..da32f873fc 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that if you want real whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern that you'll have to either escape them or encode them using octal or hex escapes. Taken together, these features go a long way towards making Perl's regular expressions -more readable. See the C comment deletion code in L<perlop>. +more readable. Note that you have to be careful not to include the +pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has no way of knowing you did +not intend to close the pattern early. See the C comment deletion code +in L<perlop>. =head2 Regular Expressions |