From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 05:03:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: more s/s_/s!/ etc.
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more s/s_/s!/ etc.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3065
---

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 738d7f9..022fe92 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ now correctly prints "3|a", instead of "2|a".
 The new format type 'Z' is useful for packing and unpacking null-terminated
 strings.  See L<perlfunc/"pack">.
 
-=head2 pack() format modifier '_' supported
+=head2 pack() format modifier '!' supported
 
 The new format type modifer '!' is useful for packing and unpacking
 native shorts, ints, and longs.  See L<perlfunc/"pack">.
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index a193d67..b8580ed 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2598,7 +2598,7 @@ follows:
 
     i	A signed integer value.
     I	An unsigned integer value.
-	  (This 'integer' is _at_least_ 32 bits wide.  Its exact
+	  (This 'integer' is _at least_ 32 bits wide.  Its exact
            size depends on what a local C compiler calls 'int',
            and may even be larger than the 'long' described in
            the next item.)
@@ -2679,16 +2679,16 @@ C<"P"> is C<undef>.
 =item *
 
 The integer types C<"s">, C<"S">, C<"l">, and C<"L"> may be
-immediately followed by a C<"_"> to signify native shorts or longs--as
+immediately followed by a C<"!"> to signify native shorts or longs--as
 you can see from above for example a bare C<"l"> does mean exactly 32
 bits, the native C<long> (as seen by the local C compiler) may be
 larger.  This is an issue mainly in 64-bit platforms.  You can see
-whether using C<"_"> makes any difference by
+whether using C<"!"> makes any difference by
 
-	print length(pack("s")), " ", length(pack("s_")), "\n";
-	print length(pack("l")), " ", length(pack("l_")), "\n";
+	print length(pack("s")), " ", length(pack("s!")), "\n";
+	print length(pack("l")), " ", length(pack("l!")), "\n";
 
-C<"i_"> and C<"I_"> also work but only because of completeness;
+C<"i!"> and C<"I!"> also work but only because of completeness;
 they are identical to C<"i"> and C<"I">.
 
 The actual sizes (in bytes) of native shorts, ints, and longs on