From: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:07:03 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: perldiag: Suggest use re '/m' for $*
X-Git-Tag: v5.13.10~262
X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/570dedd44da3a23aa548d78e168df662fd35fce8?hp=a58ac25e92f5a203cf2a2bbf7dff77aade544833

perldiag: Suggest use re '/m' for $*
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 3e4e978..2a464ec 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2346,8 +2346,9 @@ previous versions of perl the use of C<$*> enabled or disabled multi-line
 matching within a string.
 
 Instead of using C<$*> you should use the C</m> (and maybe C</s>) regexp
-modifiers. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value then
-all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
+modifiers. You can enable C</m> for a lexical scope (even a whole file)
+with C<use re '/m'>. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value
+then all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
 
 =item $# is no longer supported