=head2 perl -P and //
-In HP-UX perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
+In HP-UX Perl is compiled with flags that will cause problems if the
-P flag of Perl (preprocess Perl code with the C preprocessor before
perl sees it) is used. The problem is that C<//>, being a C++-style
until-end-of-line comment, will disappear along with the remainder
of the line. This means that common Perl constructs like
- s/foo//;
+ s/foo//;
will turn into illegal code
- s/foo
+ s/foo
-The workaround is to use some other quoting characters than /,
-like for example !
+The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
+like for example C<"!">:
- s!foo!!;
+ s!foo!!;
=head1 AUTHOR