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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index d8c90594c8..5fffed4a39 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern (outside a bracketed character class, which is unaffected by C</x>), then you'll either have to escape them (using backslashes or C<\Q...\E>) or encode them using octal, hex, or C<\N{}> escapes. +It is ineffective to try to continue a comment onto the next line by +escaping the C<\n> with a backslash or C<\Q>. You can use L</(?#text)> to create a comment that ends earlier than the end of the current line, but C<text> also can't contain the closing |