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| author | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-08-09 17:48:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Todd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2004-08-09 17:48:49 +0000 |
| commit | 069768bdb70fb3052599d3e70898a0ed0e1c31d2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1492d59179e2c9b07cb6c6754f78a3ef6e608e68 /gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod | |
| parent | f2ebe24544ebe30f7ed499fda280dce09361f966 (diff) | |
Import of stock perl 5.8.5
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod index bb15c46e5c7..7abd895e8a8 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlrequick.pod @@ -380,8 +380,9 @@ C<$pattern> won't be changing, use the C<//o> modifier, to only perform variable substitutions once. If you don't want any substitutions at all, use the special delimiter C<m''>: - $pattern = 'Seuss'; - m'$pattern'; # matches '$pattern', not 'Seuss' + @pattern = ('Seuss'); + m/@pattern/; # matches 'Seuss' + m'@pattern'; # matches the literal string '@pattern' The global modifier C<//g> allows the matching operator to match within a string as many times as possible. In scalar context, |