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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index af7ac32836..928dfb5732 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ so may lead to surprising and unsatisfactory results. =head2 Relative backreferences Counting the opening parentheses to get the correct number for a -backreference is errorprone as soon as there is more than one +backreference is error-prone as soon as there is more than one capturing group. A more convenient technique became available with Perl 5.10: relative backreferences. To refer to the immediately preceding capture group one now may write C<\g{-1}>, the next but @@ -1537,7 +1537,7 @@ the regexp in the I<last successful match> is used instead. So we have =head3 Global matching -The final two modifiers we will disccuss here, +The final two modifiers we will discuss here, C<//g> and C<//c>, concern multiple matches. The modifier C<//g> stands for global matching and allows the matching operator to match within a string as many times as possible. @@ -1870,7 +1870,7 @@ substituted. C<\Q>, C<\L>, C<\l>, C<\U>, C<\u> and C<\E> are actually part of double-quotish syntax, and not part of regexp syntax proper. They will -work if they appear in a regular expression embeddded directly in a +work if they appear in a regular expression embedded directly in a program, but not when contained in a string that is interpolated in a pattern. |