Bugfix for perlrequick and perlretut

Message-Id: <200402241132.34656.kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22368

diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod
index bb15c46..7abd895 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrequick.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod
@@ -380,8 +380,9 @@ C<$pattern> won't be changing, use the C<//o> modifier, to only
 perform variable substitutions once.  If you don't want any
 substitutions at all, use the special delimiter C<m''>:
 
-    $pattern = 'Seuss';
-    m'$pattern'; # matches '$pattern', not 'Seuss'
+    @pattern = ('Seuss');
+    m/@pattern/; # matches 'Seuss'
+    m'@pattern'; # matches the literal string '@pattern'
 
 The global modifier C<//g> allows the matching operator to match
 within a string as many times as possible.  In scalar context,

diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index be4693d..b738c3b 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -1325,9 +1325,9 @@ If you change C<$pattern> after the first substitution happens, perl
 will ignore it.  If you don't want any substitutions at all, use the
 special delimiter C<m''>:
 
-    $pattern = 'Seuss';
+    @pattern = ('Seuss');
     while (<>) {
-        print if m'$pattern';  # matches '$pattern', not 'Seuss'
+        print if m'@pattern';  # matches literal '@pattern', not 'Seuss'
     }
 
 C<m''> acts like single quotes on a regexp; all other C<m> delimiters