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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index 04c92d5ea2..c6dd30f1d4 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -71,12 +71,13 @@ character is also treated as a metacharacter introducing a comment, just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that if you want real whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern (outside a character class, where they are unaffected by C</x>), that you'll either have to -escape them or encode them using octal or hex escapes. Taken together, -these features go a long way towards making Perl's regular expressions -more readable. Note that you have to be careful not to include the -pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has no way of knowing you did -not intend to close the pattern early. See the C-comment deletion code -in L<perlop>. +escape them (using blackslashes or C<\Q \E>) or encode them using octal +or hex escapes. Taken together, these features go a long way towards +making Perl's regular expressions more readable. Note that you have to +be careful not to include the pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has +no way of knowing you did not intend to close the pattern early. See +the C-comment deletion code in L<perlop>. Also note that anything inside +a C<\Q...\E> stays unaffected by C</x>. X</x> =head2 Regular Expressions |