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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
August 6, 2013 03:39
Subject:
Re: [perl #119151] perldoc perlre does not appear to mention /r
Message ID:
52006FE3.2090002@khwilliamson.com
On 08/05/2013 07:18 PM, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Sun Aug 04 20:27:43 2013, jarich wrote:
>>
>> This is a bug report for perl from jarich@perltraining.com.au,
>> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.16.2.
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> G'day folk,
>>
>> Thank you again for all the awesomeness.  I was discussing /r with
>> a friend today and they asked to see documentation.  I can't find
>> it mentioned anywhere in perldoc perlre (although it is in
>> perlrequick).
>>
>> I checked the documentation for 5.18.0 too, and couldn't find it in
>> perlre there, either.
>>
>> This seems like an accidental omission.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>       Jacinta
>>
>
> Please review the patch attached.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Jim Keenan
>
> ---
> via perlbug:  queue: perl5 status: new
> https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119151
>


The canonical description for this feature is not in perlretut, but
L<perlop/sE<sol>PATTERNE<sol>REPLACEMENTE<sol>msixpodualgcer>

That may change the calculus of what you want to say in perlre.

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