I don't know where the text for the stuff below this new heading should
go, but it clearly doesn't belon with what came before, so add a heading
to separate them, perhaps rearranging things later
have to tell perl when you want to use them.
X</p> X<p modifier>
+=head2 Quoting metacharacters
+
Backslashed metacharacters in Perl are alphanumeric, such as C<\b>,
C<\w>, C<\n>. Unlike some other regular expression languages, there
are no backslashed symbols that aren't alphanumeric. So anything