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diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod index 6b65e04303..b2c87fa9b0 100644 --- a/pod/perlform.pod +++ b/pod/perlform.pod @@ -335,3 +335,12 @@ cannot be controlled by C<use locale> because the pragma is tied to the block structure of the program, and, for historical reasons, formats exist outside that block structure. See L<perllocale> for further discussion of locale handling. + +Inside of an expression, the whitespace characters \n, \t and \f are +considered to be equivalent to a single space. Thus, you could think +of this filter being applied to each value in the format: + + $value =~ tr/\n\t\f/ /; + +The remaining whitespace character, \r, forces the printing of a new +line if allowed by the picture line. |