Integrate from maint-5.8 : changes 18290-1, 18293-5, 18297

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlre.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index bb52113..85ce658 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ The following standard quantifiers are recognized:
     {n,m}  Match at least n but not more than m times
 
 (If a curly bracket occurs in any other context, it is treated
-as a regular character.)  The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
+as a regular character.  In particular, the lower bound
+is not optional.)  The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
 modifier to C<{1,}>, and the "?" modifier to C<{0,1}>.  n and m are limited
 to integral values less than a preset limit defined when perl is built.
 This is usually 32766 on the most common platforms.  The actual limit can
@@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ In addition, Perl defines the following:
     \C Match a single C char (octet) even under Unicode.
        NOTE: breaks up characters into their UTF-8 bytes,
        so you may end up with malformed pieces of UTF-8.
+       Unsupported in lookbehind.
 
 A C<\w> matches a single alphanumeric character (an alphabetic
 character, or a decimal digit) or C<_>, not a whole word.  Use C<\w+>