X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlre.pod;h=cd6056c2f60304dc30558d25f759eda56b2402f3;hb=5146ce245446226ed02775f664797aac87dacb4d;hp=bc5e7c914d73a42919e0a643b2afa2917d0e4f4e;hpb=580a9fe1f2eadca33b9bfe7700739a00e7d804ca;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index bc5e7c9..cd6056c 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ until the end of the enclosing block or until the next successful match, whichever comes first. (See L.) B: failed matches in Perl do not reset the match variables, -which makes easier to write code that tests for a series of more +which makes it easier to write code that tests for a series of more specific cases and remembers the best match. B: Once Perl sees that you need one of C<$&>, C<$`>, or @@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ Overloaded constants (see L) provide a simple way to extend the functionality of the RE engine. Suppose that we want to enable a new RE escape-sequence C<\Y|> which -matches at boundary between white-space characters and non-whitespace +matches at boundary between whitespace characters and non-whitespace characters. Note that C<(?=\S)(? matches exactly at these positions, so we want to have each C<\Y|> in the place of the more complicated version. We can create a module C to do