On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:59:54PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote:
> perlre(1) seems to be missing information about substitution evaluations
> with the /e option. The functionality is present in perl:
>
> perl -e '$_=2; s/2/1+3/e; print'
>
> But it is not listed in the base documentation. The modifier /e is
> described in "Programming Perl", 4th ed, pp 186, 254-255. Could something
> like the following be added?
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
> ? pod2htmd.tmp
> Index: perlre.pod
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/pod/perlre.pod,v
> retrieving revision 1.16
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.16 perlre.pod
> --- perlre.pod 25 Mar 2013 20:40:59 -0000 1.16
> +++ perlre.pod 30 Nov 2013 10:58:38 -0000
> @@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ X</p> X<regex, preserve> X<regexp, prese
> Preserve the string matched such that ${^PREMATCH}, ${^MATCH}, and
> ${^POSTMATCH} are available for use after matching.
>
> +=item e
> +X</e>
> +
> +Treat the replacement portion as an interpreted expression.
> +Each additional C</e> modifier after the first functions as an eval() around
> the code to execute.
> +
> =item g and c
> X</g> X</c>
>
For this kind of thing, you're much better off talking to upstream
as this is totally openbsd-independent.
