From: Casey West <casey@geeknest.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:20:43 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [patch #7514] Bug in perlop regex explination X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa86364122f968303423b88e91864674c115d6fb;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git [patch #7514] Bug in perlop regex explination Message-Id: <20030428172206.GK62281@geeknest.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@19364 --- diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod index cd36ec1..94c930f 100644 --- a/pod/perlop.pod +++ b/pod/perlop.pod @@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ alphanumeric char, as in: In the RE above, which is intentionally obfuscated for illustration, the delimiter is C<m>, the modifier is C<mx>, and after backslash-removal the -RE is the same as for C<m/ ^ a s* b /mx>). There's more than one +RE is the same as for C<m/ ^ a \s* b /mx>. There's more than one reason you're encouraged to restrict your delimiters to non-alphanumeric, non-whitespace choices.