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authorGisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>2006-11-03 07:08:18 +0000
committerGisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>2006-11-03 07:08:18 +0000
commit28c3722c366b749ca5cccbb25c2ed5b72672ecd2 (patch)
tree49ee88088f5973d842a55c00d1a551128574cb3e /pod
parent6727fff1549ac0959bf3db3fb9ee2bdc2e31327c (diff)
downloadperl-28c3722c366b749ca5cccbb25c2ed5b72672ecd2.tar.gz
Typo fixes by Hendrik Maryns.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29196
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index 6afae2187b..fdff32aa0a 100644
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ string is the earliest point at which the regexp can match.
# 'yes', 'Yes', 'YES', etc.
This regexp displays a common task: perform a case-insensitive
-match. Perl provides away of avoiding all those brackets by simply
+match. Perl provides a way of avoiding all those brackets by simply
appending an C<'i'> to the end of the match. Then C</[yY][eE][sS]/;>
can be rewritten as C</yes/i;>. The C<'i'> stands for
case-insensitive and is an example of a B<modifier> of the matching
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ character, or the match fails. Then
/[^0-9]/; # matches a non-numeric character
/[a^]at/; # matches 'aat' or '^at'; here '^' is ordinary
-Now, even C<[0-9]> can be a bother the write multiple times, so in the
+Now, even C<[0-9]> can be a bother to write multiple times, so in the
interest of saving keystrokes and making regexps more readable, Perl
has several abbreviations for common character classes:
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ You might wonder why C<'.'> matches everything but C<"\n"> - why not
every character? The reason is that often one is matching against
lines and would like to ignore the newline characters. For instance,
while the string C<"\n"> represents one line, we would like to think
-of as empty. Then
+of it as empty. Then
"" =~ /^$/; # matches
"\n" =~ /^$/; # matches, "\n" is ignored
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ Here are examples of C<//s> and C<//m> in action:
Most of the time, the default behavior is what is wanted, but C<//s> and
C<//m> are occasionally very useful. If C<//m> is being used, the start
-of the string can still be matched with C<\A> and the end of string
+of the string can still be matched with C<\A> and the end of the string
can still be matched with the anchors C<\Z> (matches both the end and
the newline before, like C<$>), and C<\z> (matches only the end):
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ choices are described in the next section.
=head2 Matching this or that
-Sometimes we would like to our regexp to be able to match different
+Sometimes we would like our regexp to be able to match different
possible words or character strings. This is accomplished by using
the B<alternation> metacharacter C<|>. To match C<dog> or C<cat>, we
form the regexp C<dog|cat>. As before, perl will try to match the