From: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:31:45 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: mention of g and c modifiers missing from perlre.pod
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mention of g and c modifiers missing from perlre.pod
From: "David Nicol" <davidnicol@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <934f64a20707111531m313e3a9at82f002c68eab5bee@mail.gmail.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31596
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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 6060e18..56df3eb 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ X</p> X<regex, preserve> X<regexp, preserve>
 Preserve the string matched such that ${^PREMATCH}, {$^MATCH}, and
 ${^POSTMATCH} are available for use after matching.
 
+=item g and c
+X</g> X</c>
+
+Global matching, and keep the Current position after failed matching.
+Unlike i, m, s and x, these two flags affect the way the regex is used
+rather than the regex itself. See
+L<perlretut/"Using regular expressions in Perl"> for further explanation
+of the g and c modifiers.
+
 =back
 
 These are usually written as "the C</x> modifier", even though the delimiter