matches the same sequence in the target string, as we saw above with
C<m/abc/>.
-Only a few characters (all or them being ASCII punctuation characters)
+Only a few characters (all of them being ASCII punctuation characters)
are metacharacters. The most commonly used one is a dot C<".">, which
normally matches almost any character (including a dot itself).
C<\w> matches the platform's native underscore character plus whatever
the locale considers to be alphanumeric.
-=item if instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
+=item if, instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
C<\w> matches exactly what C<\p{Word}> matches.
C<\s> matches whatever the locale considers to be whitespace.
-=item if instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
+=item if, instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
C<\s> matches exactly the characters shown with an "s" column in the
table below.
=back
-=item if instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
+=item if, instead, Unicode rules are in effect ...
The POSIX class matches the same as the Full-range counterpart.