From: Karl Williamson
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:40:17 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: perlre: Add heading to separate unrelated paragraphs
X-Git-Tag: v5.13.3~276
X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/9d72720389ea01fc030f6e3c02c9660abe7970c3?hp=d8b950dcbc51bd501c5dc196cc12d87eaf47b60c
perlre: Add heading to separate unrelated paragraphs
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
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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod
index 8f193c8..7048787 100644
--- a/pod/perlre.pod
+++ b/pod/perlre.pod
@@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ their punctuation char equivalents, however at the trade-off that you
have to tell perl when you want to use them.
X
X
+=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