[perl #90166] Unpack character . lacks documentation

On Mon May 09 05:00:11 2011, jv wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from jvromans@squirrel.nl,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.0.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> Unpack character . (returns the number of bytes or characters (depending
> on the selected encoding mode) read so far) is not documented in
> perlfunc.pod.
> 
> The documentation of pack / unpack is too messy to provide an easy
> patch.
> 

At lines 4042-43 of pod/perlfunc.pod (blead), I see:

#####
.  Null-fill or truncate to absolute position specified by the value.
#####

Is that different from what you were looking for?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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