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Re: Re: Opinions on usefulness of Perldoc

by chipmunk (Parson)
on Mar 28, 2001 at 09:21 UTC ( [id://67750]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Opinions on usefulness of Perldoc
in thread Opinions on usefulness of Perldoc

This text is also present in the 5.005_03 documentation.

Even the documentation that came with perl5.004 includes those two paragraphs:

m Treat string as multiple lines. That is, change "^" and "$" from matching at only the very start or end of the string to the start or end of any line anywhere within the string, s Treat string as single line. That is, change "." to match any character whatsoever, even a newline, which it normally would not match.
Although it lacks the followup explanation of the interactions between /s, /m, and $*.

The original poster must have a very old version of Perl. Complaining about a lack of documentation in such an old version of Perl is pointless. The problem was found and fixed years ago; the solution is to upgrade.

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