From: Hugo van der Sanden Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 01:26:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: a tweaked version of: X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c815be9f490bd7db5177b102e9ec25d74b97f4f;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git a tweaked version of: Message-Id: Subject: Re: Misparsing s///x p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1121 --- diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index 8fb5820..da32f87 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ just as in ordinary Perl code. This also means that if you want real whitespace or C<#> characters in the pattern that you'll have to either escape them or encode them using octal or hex escapes. Taken together, these features go a long way towards making Perl's regular expressions -more readable. See the C comment deletion code in L. +more readable. Note that you have to be careful not to include the +pattern delimiter in the comment--perl has no way of knowing you did +not intend to close the pattern early. See the C comment deletion code +in L. =head2 Regular Expressions