In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 435b3a334a8395d68b51289a1c83ca1d4ea8a1f7
Author: Karl Williamson <k...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Dec 30 10:01:38 2018 -0700
perlre: Note that lookbehind is up to 255 chars
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlre.pod | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 5329df2f86..8b2bfb9da4 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@ X<look-behind, positive> X<lookbehind, positive> X<\K>
A zero-width positive lookbehind assertion. For example, C</(?<=\t)\w+/>
matches a word that follows a tab, without including the tab in C<$&>.
-Works only for fixed-width lookbehind.
+Works only for fixed-width lookbehind of up to 255 characters.
There is a special form of this construct, called C<\K> (available since
Perl 5.10.0), which causes the
@@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ X<look-behind, negative> X<lookbehind, negative>
A zero-width negative lookbehind assertion. For example C</(?<!bar)foo/>
matches any occurrence of "foo" that does not follow "bar". Works
-only for fixed-width lookbehind.
+only for fixed-width lookbehind of up to 255 characters.
The alphabetic forms are experimental; using them yields a warning in the
C<experimental::alpha_assertions> category.
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