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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 18:43:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 18:43:26 +0000 |
| commit | 036b4402dc24284de44ae733b52896d6fd4fbb77 (patch) | |
| tree | d5e9e3da35cb3d3e73042376fa1e177e1605d2ae /pod | |
| parent | 5e8d048a952c2fb1d246a3acf32bd1f15a6358fa (diff) | |
| download | perl-036b4402dc24284de44ae733b52896d6fd4fbb77.tar.gz | |
integrate cfgperl changes#6252..6260 into mainline
p4raw-link: @6260 on //depot/cfgperl: fc865a0069737312ca5ef9762fe8a9be7aa37747
p4raw-link: @6252 on //depot/cfgperl: 0e4dedf1581344244dfa297db1d00c01c5f821aa
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6362
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6361 'copy in'
t/pragma/constant.t (@5717..) t/op/pack.t t/pragma/warn/op
(@5996..) pp_proto.h (@6243..) t/op/my_stash.t (@6250..)
lib/IPC/Open3.pm (@6253..) 'ignore' t/pragma/warn/regcomp
(@6241..) lib/Exporter.pm (@6251..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6260 'copy in' pp.c (@6217..)
pod/perlfunc.pod (@6248..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6259 'copy in' MANIFEST
(@6250..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6257 'copy in' op.c (@6228..)
'merge in' sv.c (@6244..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6256 'copy in' doop.c (@6254..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6254 'copy in' t/op/tr.t
(@6192..) 'ignore' embedvar.h objXSUB.h (@6243..) 'merge in'
embed.h (@6243..) embed.pl proto.h (@6250..)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 6b4e971f97..00fc8601a4 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3202,6 +3202,15 @@ equal $foo). =item * +If the pattern begins with a C<U>, the resulting string will be treated +as Unicode-encoded. You can force UTF8 encoding on in a string with an +initial C<U0>, and the bytes that follow will be interpreted as Unicode +characters. If you don't want this to happen, you can begin your pattern +with C<C0> (or anything else) to force Perl not to UTF8 encode your +string, and then follow this with a C<U*> somewhere in your pattern. + +=item * + You must yourself do any alignment or padding by inserting for example enough C<'x'>es while packing. There is no way to pack() and unpack() could know where the bytes are going to or coming from. Therefore |