Perlfaq nits from Iain Truskett.

(from the perlfaq-workers list)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21283

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod
index 54627ea..8649ca8 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ approaches are doomed to failure.
 One simple way to check that things are in the right place is to print out
 the hard-coded @INC that perl looks through for libraries:
 
-    % perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)'
+    % perl -le 'print for @INC'
 
 If this command lists any paths that don't exist on your system, then you
 may need to move the appropriate libraries to these locations, or create

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq4.pod b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
index e2054e4..70af877 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq4.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq4.pod
@@ -2003,13 +2003,17 @@ Assuming that you don't care about IEEE notations like "NaN" or
    if (/^([+-]?)(?=\d|\.\d)\d*(\.\d*)?([Ee]([+-]?\d+))?$/)
                        { print "a C float\n" }
 
-You can also use the L<Data::Types|Data::Types> module on
-the CPAN, which exports functions that validate data types
-using these and other regular expressions, or you can use
-the C<Regexp::Common> module from CPAN which has regular
-expressions to match various types of numbers.
-
-If you're on a POSIX system, Perl's supports the C<POSIX::strtod>
+There are also some commonly used modules for the task.
+L<Scalar::Util> (distributed with 5.8) provides access to perl's
+internal function C<looks_like_number> for determining
+whether a variable looks like a number.  L<Data::Types>
+exports functions that validate data types using both the
+above and other regular expressions. Thirdly, there is
+C<Regexp::Common> which has regular expressions to match
+various types of numbers. Those three modules are available
+from the CPAN.
+
+If you're on a POSIX system, Perl supports the C<POSIX::strtod>
 function.  Its semantics are somewhat cumbersome, so here's a C<getnum>
 wrapper function for more convenient access.  This function takes
 a string and returns the number it found, or C<undef> for input that
@@ -2032,7 +2036,7 @@ if you just want to say, ``Is this a float?''
 
     sub is_numeric { defined getnum($_[0]) }
 
-Or you could check out the L<String::Scanf|String::Scanf> module on the CPAN
+Or you could check out the L<String::Scanf> module on the CPAN
 instead. The POSIX module (part of the standard Perl distribution) provides
 the C<strtod> and C<strtol> for converting strings to double and longs,
 respectively.

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
index e2ea3e7..2fceab1 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod
@@ -1163,7 +1163,7 @@ See Perl's L<lib> for more information.
     use lib "$FindBin::Bin";
     use your_own_modules;
 
-=head2 How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
+=head2 How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime?
 
 Here are the suggested ways of modifying your include path: