From: Abigail Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:59:48 +0000 (+0100) Subject: pod/perlfunc.pod X-Git-Tag: perl-5.9.0~2053 X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/5da728e280c9c9d54469fad3da64edcc1d552ca3 pod/perlfunc.pod Message-Id: <20030202155948.7971.qmail@abigail.nl> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18634 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index f25f9c7..355ada8 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4812,13 +4812,13 @@ The pattern C may be replaced with an expression to specify patterns that vary at runtime. (To do runtime compilation only once, use C.) -As a special case, specifying a PATTERN of space (C<' '>) will split on -white space just as C with no arguments does. Thus, C can -be used to emulate B's default behavior, whereas C +As a special case, specifying a PATTERN of space (S>) will split on +white space just as C with no arguments does. Thus, S> can +be used to emulate B's default behavior, whereas S> will give you as many null initial fields as there are leading spaces. -A C on C is like a C except that any leading +A C on C is like a S> except that any leading whitespace produces a null first field. A C with no arguments -really does a C internally. +really does a S> internally. A PATTERN of C is treated as if it were C, since it isn't much use otherwise.