Change 17706 by rgs@rgs-home on 2002/08/09 21:00:41
Subject: Re: missing lower range in {} regex
From: "John P. Linderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:48:55 -0400
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/pod/perlre.pod#78 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlre.pod#78 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlre.pod
--- perl/pod/perlre.pod#77~17434~ Tue Jul 9 04:50:41 2002
+++ perl/pod/perlre.pod Fri Aug 9 14:00:41 2002
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
{n,m} Match at least n but not more than m times
(If a curly bracket occurs in any other context, it is treated
-as a regular character.) The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
+as a regular character. In particular, the lower bound
+is not optional.) The "*" modifier is equivalent to C<{0,}>, the "+"
modifier to C<{1,}>, and the "?" modifier to C<{0,1}>. n and m are limited
to integral values less than a preset limit defined when perl is built.
This is usually 32766 on the most common platforms. The actual limit can
End of Patch.
