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diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 65dfb4782c..f4e9bb6440 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ to give them a chance to match. The last example points out that character classes are like alternations of characters. At a given character position, the first -alternative that allows the regexp match to succeed wil be the one +alternative that allows the regexp match to succeed will be the one that matches. =head2 Grouping things and hierarchical matching @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ are Alternations behave the same way in groups as out of them: at a given string position, the leftmost alternative that allows the regexp to -match is taken. So in the last example at tth first string position, +match is taken. So in the last example at the first string position, C<"20"> matches the second alternative, but there is nothing left over to match the next two digits C<\d\d>. So perl moves on to the next alternative, which is the null alternative and that works, since |