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Remove false statement about Unicode strings
author
Karl Williamson
<khw@khw-desktop.(none)>
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:23:08 +0000
(10:23 -0600)
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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
<rgs@consttype.org>
Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:39:49 +0000
(09:39 +0200)
It is simply not true that all text strings are Unicode strings in Perl.
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B<Text strings>, or B<character strings> are made of characters. Bytes are
irrelevant here, and so are encodings. Each character is just that: the
character.
-Text strings are also called B<Unicode strings>, because in Perl, every text
-string is a Unicode string.
-
On a text string, you would do things like:
$text =~ s/foo/bar/;