Mention there are places /x modifier is ineffective

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

diff --git a/pod/perlreref.pod b/pod/perlreref.pod
index eb3933a..a776e5f 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlreref.pod
+++ b/pod/perlreref.pod
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ These work as in normal strings.
    \x{263a} A wide hexadecimal value
    \cx      Control-x
    \N{name} A named character
+   \N{U+263D} A Unicode character by hex ordinal
 
    \l  Lowercase next character
    \u  Titlecase next character
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ This one works differently from normal strings:
    [f-j-]   Dash escaped or at start or end means 'dash'
    [^f-j]   Caret indicates "match any character _except_ these"
 
-The following sequences work within or without a character class.
+The following sequences (except C<\N>) work within or without a character class.
 The first six are locale aware, all are Unicode aware. See L<perllocale>
 and L<perlunicode> for details.
 
@@ -125,7 +126,9 @@ and L<perlunicode> for details.
    \S      A non-whitespace character
    \h      An horizontal white space
    \H      A non horizontal white space
-   \N      A non newline (when not followed by a '{'; it's like . without /s)
+   \N      A non newline (when not followed by '{NAME}'; not valid in a
+          character class; equivalent to [^\n]; it's like . without /s
+          modifier)
    \v      A vertical white space
    \V      A non vertical white space
    \R      A generic newline           (?>\v|\x0D\x0A)
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@ All are zero-width assertions.
 
 =head2 QUANTIFIERS
 
-Quantifiers are greedy by default -- match the B<longest> leftmost.
+Quantifiers are greedy by default and match the B<longest> leftmost.
 
    Maximal Minimal Possessive Allowed range
    ------- ------- ---------- -------------
@@ -194,7 +197,7 @@ The possessive forms (new in Perl 5.10) prevent backtracking: what gets
 matched by a pattern with a possessive quantifier will not be backtracked
 into, even if that causes the whole match to fail.
 
-There is no quantifier {,n} -- that gets understood as a literal string.
+There is no quantifier C<{,n}>. That's interpreted as a literal string.
 
 =head2 EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS