Author: larry Date: Wed Oct 18 13:57:40 2006 New Revision: 13210 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log: word boundaries are defined in terms of \w, not \s Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Wed Oct 18 13:57:40 2006 @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Maintainer: Patrick Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Jun 2002 - Last Modified: 12 Oct 2006 + Last Modified: 18 Oct 2006 Number: 5 - Version: 39 + Version: 40 This document summarizes Apocalypse 5, which is about the new regex syntax. We now try to call them I<regex> rather than "regular @@ -1008,8 +1008,8 @@ C<<< >> >>> token indicates a right word boundary. (As separate tokens, these need not be balanced.) PerlĀ 5's C<\b> is replaced by a C<< <?wb> >> "word boundary" assertion, while C<\B> becomes C<< <!wb> >>. (None of -these are dependent on the definition of C<< <ws> >>, but only on the C<\s> -definition of whitespace.) +these are dependent on the definition of C<< <ws> >>, but only on the C<\w> +definition of "word" characters.) item *