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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>wrote: > * Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> [2011-12-29T12:33:05] > > > Warning on an unmatched \E might make sense. I'm not sure. \Q should > be > > > allowed to end peacefully when the string terminates. > > > > \Q is documented to escape all non letter/digit/underscores to the next > > \E or the end of the pattern, whichever comes first. > > I was pretty sure it was, but didn't find the documentation in the brief > look I > had before posting. All I found was talk about \Q..\E pairs, with a few > examples that omitted \E. > Examples in the documentation are documentation, and \E is omitted in all four examples where it could be omitted. But it could be clarified at little cost. Current: \L: lowercase all characters till \E seen \U: uppercase all characters till \E seen \Q: quote non-word characters till \E Suggested: \L: lowercase all characters till \E or end of string \U: uppercase all characters till \E or end of string \Q: quote non-word characters till \E or end of string - EricThread Previous | Thread Next