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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlunicode.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod index c0a2ca4370..afa9fa1957 100644 --- a/pod/perlunicode.pod +++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod @@ -1409,13 +1409,7 @@ surrogates, which are not real Unicode code points. Regular expression pattern matching may surprise you if you're not accustomed to Unicode. Starting in Perl 5.14, there are a number of -modifiers available that control this. For convenience, they will be -referred to in this section using the notation, e.g., C<"/a"> even -though in 5.14, they are not usable in a postfix form after the -(typical) trailing slash of a regular expression. (In 5.14, they are -usable only infix, for example by C</(?a:foo)/>, or by setting them to -apply across a scope by, e.g., C<use re '/a';>. It is planned to lift -this restriction in 5.16.) +modifiers available that control this. The C<"/l"> modifier says that the regular expression should match based on whatever locale is in effect at execution time. For example, C<\w> |