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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, |