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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-03-30 16:35:14 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-03-30 16:38:49 -0600
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/dual are available in 5.14 as suffix after all
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@@ -1409,13 +1409,7 @@ surrogates, which are not real Unicode code points.
Regular expression pattern matching may surprise you if you're not
accustomed to Unicode. Starting in Perl 5.14, there are a number of
-modifiers available that control this. For convenience, they will be
-referred to in this section using the notation, e.g., C<"/a"> even
-though in 5.14, they are not usable in a postfix form after the
-(typical) trailing slash of a regular expression. (In 5.14, they are
-usable only infix, for example by C</(?a:foo)/>, or by setting them to
-apply across a scope by, e.g., C<use re '/a';>. It is planned to lift
-this restriction in 5.16.)
+modifiers available that control this.
The C<"/l"> modifier says that the regular expression should match based
on whatever locale is in effect at execution time. For example, C<\w>