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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-07-12 07:42:17 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-07-12 07:42:17 +0000
commit582cc87923e67e144f843c66a3017f5dc873b8de (patch)
tree6493bb9f528b51bf030473ecb53313c5be23667f /pod
parent48237ddebcafead6ccafb1124390a1ce30560e1f (diff)
parent2573c5f9376c426c078dbe90cdebc1d347ddc348 (diff)
downloadperl-582cc87923e67e144f843c66a3017f5dc873b8de.tar.gz
integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6381
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlre.pod7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 15e58c1cf9..c964be8b8f 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ character class. For example:
[01[:alpha:]%]
-matches one, zero, any alphabetic character, and the percentage sign.
+matches zero, one, any alphabetic character, and the percentage sign.
If the C<utf8> pragma is used, the following equivalences to Unicode
\p{} constructs hold:
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ The assumedly non-obviously named classes are:
Any control character. Usually characters that don't produce output as
such but instead control the terminal somehow: for example newline and
backspace are control characters. All characters with ord() less than
-32 are most often classified as control characters.
+32 are most often classified as control characters (assuming ASCII,
+the ISO Latin character sets, and Unicode).
=item graph
@@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ Any punctuation (special) character.
=item xdigit
-Any hexadecimal digit. Though this may feel silly (/0-9a-f/i would
+Any hexadecimal digit. Though this may feel silly ([0-9A-Fa-f] would
work just fine) it is included for completeness.
=back