I think the author means 'wanted' rather that 'want'.
(I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this patch, please advise if I
should post this somewhere else).
--- perlretut.pod Fri Apr 28 17:20:40 2006
+++ perlretut.new Fri Apr 28 17:27:35 2006
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
$x =~ /girl.Who/m; # doesn't match, "." doesn't match "\n"
$x =~ /girl.Who/sm; # matches, "." matches "\n"
-Most of the time, the default behavior is what is want, but C<//s> and
+Most of the time, the default behavior is what is wanted, but C<//s> and
C<//m> are occasionally very useful. If C<//m> is being used, the start
of the string can still be matched with C<\A> and the end of string
can still be matched with the anchors C<\Z> (matches both the end and
Regards,
Simon Taylor
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Unisolve Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
+61 3 9568 2005
