From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:42:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: a few doc typos
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a few doc typos

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diff --git a/lib/utf8.pm b/lib/utf8.pm
index 35a478d..beb4568 100644
--- a/lib/utf8.pm
+++ b/lib/utf8.pm
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ larger than 255.  Presuming you use a Unicode editor to edit your
 program, these will typically occur directly within the literal strings
 as UTF-8 characters, but you can also specify a particular character
 with an extension of the C<\x> notation.  UTF-8 characters are
-specified by putting the hexidecimal code within curlies after the
+specified by putting the hexadecimal code within curlies after the
 C<\x>.  For instance, a Unicode smiley face is C<\x{263A}>.  A
 character in the Latin-1 range (128..255) should be written C<\x{ab}>
 rather than C<\xab>, since the former will turn into a two-byte UTF-8
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 702d8bf..0f8a060 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -2343,7 +2343,8 @@ C<'w+'>, C<'a'>, and C<'a+'>.
 
 If the filename begins with C<'|'>, the filename is interpreted as a
 command to which output is to be piped, and if the filename ends with a
-C<'|'>, the filename is interpreted See L<perlipc/"Using open() for IPC">
+C<'|'>, the filename is interpreted as a command which pipes output to
+us.  See L<perlipc/"Using open() for IPC">
 for more examples of this.  (You are not allowed to C<open()> to a command
 that pipes both in I<and> out, but see L<IPC::Open2>, L<IPC::Open3>,
 and L<perlipc/"Bidirectional Communication"> for alternatives.)
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index d3d4500..1df6ba3 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ In addition, Perl defines the following:
     \D	Match a non-digit character
     \pP	Match P, named property.  Use \p{Prop} for longer names.
     \PP	Match non-P
-    \X	Match eXtended Unicode "combining character sequence", \pM\pm*
+    \X	Match eXtended Unicode "combining character sequence",
+        equivalent to C<(?:\PM\pM*)>
     \C	Match a single C char (octet) even under utf8.
 
 A C<\w> matches a single alphanumeric character, not a whole