perlre, perlrequick: Note other pods

This revises the introductory text to link appropriately to other pods
that overlap their content.

diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 6f0c5e2..10783a3 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -7,14 +7,15 @@ perlre - Perl regular expressions
 
 This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl.
 
-If you haven't used regular expressions before, a quick-start
-introduction is available in L<perlrequick>, and a longer tutorial
-introduction is available in L<perlretut>.
-
-For reference on how regular expressions are used in matching
-operations, plus various examples of the same, see discussions of
-C<m//>, C<s///>, C<qr//> and C<"??"> in L<perlop/"Regexp Quote-Like
-Operators">.
+If you haven't used regular expressions before, a tutorial introduction
+is available in L<perlretut>.  If you know just a little about them,
+a quick-start introduction is available in L<perlrequick>.
+
+This page assumes you are familiar with regular expression basics, like
+what is a "pattern", what does it look like, and how is it basically used.
+For a reference on how they are used, plus various examples of the same,
+see discussions of C<m//>, C<s///>, C<qr//> and C<"??"> in
+L<perlop/"Regexp Quote-Like Operators">.
 
 New in v5.22, L<C<use re 'strict'>|re/'strict' mode> applies stricter
 rules than otherwise when compiling regular expression patterns.  It can

diff --git a/pod/perlrequick.pod b/pod/perlrequick.pod
index d72bd2b..3cda44a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrequick.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrequick.pod
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ using regular expressions ('regexes') in Perl.
 
 =head1 The Guide
 
+This page assumes you already know things, like what a "pattern" is, and
+the basic syntax of using them.  If you don't, see L<perlretut>.
+
 =head2 Simple word matching
 
 The simplest regex is simply a word, or more generally, a string of