From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 18:25:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add note about printf("%v",...)
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add note about printf("%v",...)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5032
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 52f148c..33ab171 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -477,6 +477,11 @@ C<require> and C<use> also support such literals:
     require v5.6.0;	# croak if $^V lt v5.6.0
     use v5.6.0;		# same, but croaks at compile-time
 
+C<sprintf> and C<printf> support the Perl-specific format type C<%v>
+to print arbitrary strings as dotted tuples.
+
+    printf "v%v", $^V;	# prints current version, such as "v5.5.650"
+
 =head2 Weak references
 
 WARNING: This is an experimental feature.