Change 20625 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/08/12 04:55:32
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perlreref.pod tweaks
From: Iain Truskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:59:27 +1000
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
plus explain "Titlecase".
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perlreref.pod#5 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlreref.pod#5 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlreref.pod
--- perl/pod/perlreref.pod#4~20620~ Mon Aug 11 10:08:29 2003
+++ perl/pod/perlreref.pod Mon Aug 11 21:55:32 2003
@@ -87,10 +87,12 @@
\l Lowercase next character
\u Uppercase next character
\L Lowercase until \E
- \U Uppercase until \E
+ \U Titlecase until \E
\Q Disable pattern metacharacters until \E
\E End case modification
+For Titlecase, see L</Titlecase>.
+
This one works differently from normal strings:
\b An assertion, not backspace, except in a character class
@@ -211,13 +213,24 @@
lc Lowercase a string
lcfirst Lowercase first char of a string
uc Uppercase a string
- ucfirst Uppercase first char of a string
+ ucfirst Titlecase first char of a string
+
pos Return or set current match position
quotemeta Quote metacharacters
reset Reset ?pattern? status
study Analyze string for optimizing matching
split Use regex to split a string into parts
+
+The first four of these are identical to the escape sequences \l, \u,
+\L, and \U. For Titlecase, see L</Titlecase>.
+
+=head1 Terminology
+
+=head2 Titlecase
+
+Unicode concept which most often is equal to uppercase, but for
+certain characters like the German "sharp s" there is a difference.
=head1 AUTHOR
End of Patch.
