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Document that -F doesn't accept whitespace in patterns.
authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:14:32 +0000 (08:14 +0000)
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:14:32 +0000 (08:14 +0000)
(fixes bug #37366)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25745

pod/perlrun.pod

index 36e331d..519e24f 100644 (file)
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ modules in non-standard locations.
 
 specifies the pattern to split on if B<-a> is also in effect.  The
 pattern may be surrounded by C<//>, C<"">, or C<''>, otherwise it will be
-put in single quotes.
+put in single quotes. You can't use literal whitespace in the pattern.
 
 =item B<-h>