X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlform.pod;h=0b2a68c3d46352fc4354a0344a9388493fbd590a;hb=f4dad39ef1a76c1f6bbf6733d7c2ee209381be78;hp=75351b693446937ac1a2cd50002a191107c583e0;hpb=54310121b442974721115f93666234a200f5c7e4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod index 75351b6..0b2a68c 100644 --- a/pod/perlform.pod +++ b/pod/perlform.pod @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ apart from all the other "types" in Perl. This means that if you have a function named "Foo", it is not the same thing as having a format named "Foo". However, the default name for the format associated with a given filehandle is the same as the name of the filehandle. Thus, the default -format for STDOUT is name "STDOUT", and the default format for filehandle -TEMP is name "TEMP". They just look the same. They aren't. +format for STDOUT is named "STDOUT", and the default format for filehandle +TEMP is named "TEMP". They just look the same. They aren't. Output record formats are declared as follows: @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ that substitute values into the line. Each field in a picture line starts with either "@" (at) or "^" (caret). These lines do not undergo any kind of variable interpolation. The at field (not to be confused with the array marker @) is the normal kind of field; the other kind, caret fields, are used -to do rudimentary multiline text block filling. The length of the field +to do rudimentary multi-line text block filling. The length of the field is supplied by padding out the field with multiple "E", "E", or "|" characters to specify, respectively, left justification, right justification, or centering. If the variable would exceed the width @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ As an alternate form of right justification, you may also use "#" characters (with an optional ".") to specify a numeric field. This way you can line up the decimal points. If any value supplied for these fields contains a newline, only the text up to the newline is printed. -Finally, the special field "@*" can be used for printing multiline, +Finally, the special field "@*" can be used for printing multi-line, nontruncated values; it should appear by itself on a line. The values are specified on the following line in the same order as