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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index 68964a0e9b..f881a3bcc7 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ beginning of the string, the "$" character at only the end (or before the newline at the end) and Perl does certain optimizations with the assumption that the string contains only one line. Embedded newlines will not be matched by "^" or "$". You may, however, wish to treat a -string as a multiline buffer, such that the "^" will match after any +string as a multi-line buffer, such that the "^" will match after any newline within the string, and "$" will match before any newline. At the cost of a little more overhead, you can do this by using the /m modifier on the pattern match operator. (Older programs did this by setting C<$*>, but this practice is now deprecated.) -To facilitate multiline substitutions, the "." character never matches a +To facilitate multi-line substitutions, the "." character never matches a newline unless you use the C</s> modifier, which in effect tells Perl to pretend the string is a single line--even if it isn't. The C</s> modifier also overrides the setting of C<$*>, in case you have some (badly behaved) older |