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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlretut.pod b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlretut.pod
index be4693dd0f8..b738c3b2cbe 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -1325,9 +1325,9 @@ If you change C<$pattern> after the first substitution happens, perl
will ignore it. If you don't want any substitutions at all, use the
special delimiter C<m''>:
- $pattern = 'Seuss';
+ @pattern = ('Seuss');
while (<>) {
- print if m'$pattern'; # matches '$pattern', not 'Seuss'
+ print if m'@pattern'; # matches literal '@pattern', not 'Seuss'
}
C<m''> acts like single quotes on a regexp; all other C<m> delimiters