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On Mon Aug 05 18:18:01 2013, jkeenan wrote: > Please review the patch attached. +=item r +X</r> + +Non-destructive substitution. The entity to which the substitution is bound +is copied to a plain string. The substitution is performed on the copy and +the result of the substitution is returned. The original entity remains +unmodified. See L<perlretut/"Using regular expressions in Perl"> for further +explanation of the C</r> modifier. + As Karl said, it should point at perlop, though the explanation for g and c also point at perlretut. I think the description could use work too - right now it talks more about how the /r flag is implemented rather than what it does. Maybe: Non-destructive substitution. The C<s///> operator will return the modified string instead of modifying the variable in-place. See L<< perlop/sE<sol>PATTERNE<sol>REPLACEMENTE<sol>msixpodualgcer >> for more details and examples. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119151Thread Previous | Thread Next