8 is not an octal digit. (from Debian)
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:39:56 +0000 (17:39 +0000)]
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24021

pod/perlreref.pod

index 7008141..8a793c8 100644 (file)
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ These work as in normal strings.
    \n       Newline
    \r       Carriage return
    \t       Tab
-   \038     Any octal ASCII value
+   \037     Any octal ASCII value
    \x7f     Any hexadecimal ASCII value
    \x{263a} A wide hexadecimal value
    \cx      Control-x