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commit 9645299c5cba107a7c8cb0abd6b23360d3df6b59
Author: Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com>
Date: Tue Apr 12 19:49:19 2011 -0600
perlrebackslash: Update for 5.14 changes
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlrebackslash.pod | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
index 670f3e3..72f3f42 100644
--- a/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrebackslash.pod
@@ -220,8 +220,7 @@ octal digits. One problem with this form is that it can
look exactly like an
old-style backreference (see
L</Disambiguation rules between old-style octal escapes and backreferences>
below.) You can avoid this by making the first of the three digits always a
-zero, but that makes \077 the largest ordinal unambiguously specifiable by this
-form.
+zero, but that makes \077 the largest code point specifiable.
In some contexts, a backslash followed by two or even one octal digits may be
interpreted as an octal escape, sometimes with a warning, and because of some
@@ -365,8 +364,9 @@ New in perl 5.10.0 are the classes C<\h> and C<\v> which
match horizontal
and vertical whitespace characters.
The exact set of characters matched by C<\d>, C<\s>, and C<\w> varies
-depending on various pragma and regular expression modifiers. See
-L<perlre>.
+depending on various pragma and regular expression modifiers. It is
+possible to restrict the match to the ASCII range by using the C</a>
+regular expression modifier. See L<perlrecharclass>.
The uppercase variants (C<\W>, C<\D>, C<\S>, C<\H>, and C<\V>) are
character classes that match, respectively, any character that isn't a
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