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diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index 028c808160..d36b090d47 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1286,7 +1286,7 @@ The last example should print: Notice that the final match matched C<q> instead of C<p>, which a match without the C<\G> anchor would have done. Also note that the final match -did not update C<pos> -- C<pos> is only updated on a C</g> match. If the +did not update C<pos>. C<pos> is only updated on a C</g> match. If the final match did indeed match C<p>, it's a good bet that you're running an older (pre-5.6.0) Perl. @@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ must be sure there is a newline after it; otherwise, Perl will give the warning B<Can't find string terminator "END" anywhere before EOF...>. Additionally, the quoting rules for the end of string identifier are not -related to Perl's quoting rules -- C<q()>, C<qq()>, and the like are not +related to Perl's quoting rules. C<q()>, C<qq()>, and the like are not supported in place of C<''> and C<"">, and the only interpolation is for backslashing the quoting character: @@ -2070,7 +2070,7 @@ which are processed further. X<regexp, parse> Previous steps were performed during the compilation of Perl code, -but this one happens at run time--although it may be optimized to +but this one happens at run time, although it may be optimized to be calculated at compile time if appropriate. After preprocessing described above, and possibly after evaluation if concatenation, joining, casing translation, or metaquoting are involved, the @@ -2229,7 +2229,7 @@ is equivalent to the following Perl-like pseudo code: except that it isn't so cumbersome to say, and will actually work. It really does shift the @ARGV array and put the current filename into the $ARGV variable. It also uses filehandle I<ARGV> -internally--<> is just a synonym for <ARGV>, which +internally. <> is just a synonym for <ARGV>, which is magical. (The pseudo code above doesn't work because it treats <ARGV> as non-magical.) |