* I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong? + $/ has always been a string, so "as of Perl 5.8.0" is misleading since it makes it read like the behaviour of $/ changed at that version. I changed it to "up to".
Index: perlfaq6.pod =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq6.pod,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -d -r1.19 perlfaq6.pod --- perlfaq6.pod 6 Dec 2002 07:40:11 -0000 1.19 +++ perlfaq6.pod 29 Dec 2002 10:52:01 -0000 @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ =head2 I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong? -As of Perl 5.8.0, $/ has to be a string. This may change in 5.10, +Up to Perl 5.8.0, $/ has to be a string. This may change in 5.10, but don't get your hopes up. Until then, you can use these examples if you really need to do this. -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
