fix places that mean C<"word" character> but say C<alphanumeric

character>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6130

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 4e67506..f24c1d2 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3426,7 +3426,7 @@ Generalized quotes.  See L<perlop/"Regexp Quote-Like Operators">.
 
 =item quotemeta
 
-Returns the value of EXPR with all non-alphanumeric
+Returns the value of EXPR with all non-"word"
 characters backslashed.  (That is, all characters not matching
 C</[A-Za-z_0-9]/> will be preceded by a backslash in the
 returned string, regardless of any locale settings.)

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 2db4139..a82ab32 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ You'll need to write something like C<m/\Quser\E\@\Qhost/>.
 In addition, Perl defines the following:
 
     \w Match a "word" character (alphanumeric plus "_")
-    \W Match a non-word character
+    \W Match a non-"word" character
     \s Match a whitespace character
     \S Match a non-whitespace character
     \d Match a digit character
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ In addition, Perl defines the following:
         equivalent to C<(?:\PM\pM*)>
     \C Match a single C char (octet) even under utf8.
 
-A C<\w> matches a single alphanumeric character, not a whole word.
+A C<\w> matches a single alphanumeric character or C<_>, not a whole word.
 Use C<\w+> to match a string of Perl-identifier characters (which isn't 
 the same as matching an English word).  If C<use locale> is in effect, the
 list of alphabetic characters generated by C<\w> is taken from the
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ that looks like \\, \(, \), \<, \>, \{, or \} is always
 interpreted as a literal character, not a metacharacter.  This was
 once used in a common idiom to disable or quote the special meanings
 of regular expression metacharacters in a string that you want to
-use for a pattern. Simply quote all non-alphanumeric characters:
+use for a pattern. Simply quote all non-"word" characters:
 
     $pattern =~ s/(\W)/\\$1/g;
 

diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index 5ff4298..66f8179 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ become the svelte C<[0-9]> and C<[a-z]>.  Some examples are
     /[0-9bx-z]aa/;  # matches '0aa', ..., '9aa',
                     # 'baa', 'xaa', 'yaa', or 'zaa'
     /[0-9a-fA-F]/;  # matches a hexadecimal digit
-    /[0-9a-zA-Z_]/; # matches an alphanumeric character,
+    /[0-9a-zA-Z_]/; # matches a "word" character,
                     # like those in a perl variable name
 
 If C<'-'> is the first or last character in a character class, it is