Clarify that some examples are for ASCII machines

diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
index 148f6ee..4ce2796 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ as a character without special meaning by the regex engine, and will match
 
 Mnemonic: heI<x>adecimal.
 
-=head4 Examples
+=head4 Examples (assuming an ASCII platform)
 
  $str = "Perl";
  $str =~ /\x50/;    # Match, "\x50" is "P".

diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod
index 7abd895..4b5e19a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrequick.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ for a carriage return.  Arbitrary bytes are represented by octal
 escape sequences, e.g., C<\033>, or hexadecimal escape sequences,
 e.g., C<\x1B>:
 
-    "1000\t2000" =~ m(0\t2)        # matches
-    "cat"        =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches, but a weird way to spell cat
+    "1000\t2000" =~ m(0\t2)      # matches
+    "cat"      =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches in ASCII, but a weird way to spell cat
 
 Regexes are treated mostly as double quoted strings, so variable
 substitution works:

diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index 2798f68..0ff7438 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ bytes.  Here are some examples of escapes:
     "1000\t2000" =~ m(0\t2)   # matches
     "1000\n2000" =~ /0\n20/   # matches
     "1000\t2000" =~ /\000\t2/ # doesn't match, "0" ne "\000"
-    "cat"        =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches, but a weird way to spell cat
+    "cat"   =~ /\143\x61\x74/ # matches in ASCII, but a weird way to spell cat
 
 If you've been around Perl a while, all this talk of escape sequences
 may seem familiar.  Similar escape sequences are used in double-quoted