Hmm. No comments from anyone here?
http://dellah.org/perlreref.pod http://dellah.org/perlreref.html
It all looks wonderful! Except I'm a bit torn over this: \x7f Any hexadecimal ASCII value \x{263a} A wide hexadecimal value Isn't there no difference anymore between \xNN and \xNNNN except that the first can express values only 0-0xFF?
Should I just send to p5p instead of here?Hm, maybe p5p is good for something. I don't know.
Tiny fixes:
% diff perlreref.pod~orig perlreref.pod --- perlreref.pod~orig Sun Jul 27 06:11:16 2003 +++ perlreref.pod Sun Jul 27 06:10:36 2003 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ =item =~
determines to which variable the regex is applied. -In its absence C<$_> is used. +In its absence, C<$_> is used.
$var =~ /foo/;
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ searches a string for a pattern match, applying the given options.
- i case Insensitive
+ i case-Insensitive
g Global - all occurrences
m Multiline mode - ^ and $ match internal lines
s match as a Single line - . matches \n
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@
cntrl IsCntrl Control characters
digit IsDigit \d Digits
graph IsGraph Alphanumeric and punctuation
- lower IsLower Lower case chars (locale aware)
+ lower IsLower Lowercase chars (locale aware)
print IsPrint Alphanumeric, punct, and space
punct IsPunct Punctuation
space IsSpace [\s\ck] Whitespace
IsSpacePerl \s Perl's whitespace definition
- upper IsUpper Upper case chars (locale aware)
+ upper IsUpper Uppercase chars (locale aware)
word IsWord \w Alphanumeric plus _ (Perl)
xdigit IsXDigit [\dA-Fa-f] Hexadecimal digit@@ -218,10 +218,10 @@
=head1 FUNCTIONS
- lc Lower case a string
- lcfirst Lower case first char of a string
- uc Upper case a string
- ucfirst Upper case first char of a string
+ lc Lowercase a string
+ lcfirst Lowercase first char of a string
+ uc Uppercase a string
+ ucfirst Uppercase first char of a string
pos Return or set current match position
quotemeta Quote meta characters
reset Reset ?pattern? status
-- Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
