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diff --git a/perl.man.2 b/perl.man.2 index 1289103688..2f7b514c37 100644 --- a/perl.man.2 +++ b/perl.man.2 @@ -1,7 +1,10 @@ ''' Beginning of part 2 -''' $Header: perl_man.2,v 3.0.1.7 90/08/09 04:27:04 lwall Locked $ +''' $Header: perl_man.2,v 3.0.1.8 90/08/13 22:21:00 lwall Locked $ ''' ''' $Log: perl.man.2,v $ +''' Revision 3.0.1.8 90/08/13 22:21:00 lwall +''' patch28: documented that you can't interpolate $) or $| in pattern +''' ''' Revision 3.0.1.7 90/08/09 04:27:04 lwall ''' patch19: added require operator ''' @@ -1074,6 +1077,7 @@ If the final delimiter is followed by the optional letter \*(L'i\*(R', the match done in a case-insensitive manner. PATTERN may contain references to scalar variables, which will be interpolated (and the pattern recompiled) every time the pattern search is evaluated. +(Note that $) and $| may not be interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.) If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add an \*(L"o\*(R" after the trailing delimiter. This avoids expensive run-time recompilations, and |