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On 08/06/2013 10:37 AM, Eric Brine 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). > > That's because it has noting to do with regular expressions. It's > modifier for s///, and like other operators, s/// is documented in perlop. > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/msixpodualgcer > >> I checked the documentation for 5.18.0 too, and couldn't find it in >> perlre there, either. >> >> This seems like an accidental omission. > > No, it's intentional. > > Nonetheless, I believe it would be better to briefly mention it in perlre with a pointer to perlop. It's confused more than one person, even though no one seems confused by the lack of a mention of /e. I think both of them should be mentioned in perlre. We could just say that these are s/// flags, or we could briefly indicate what they do; I have no problems with Tony's wording.Thread Previous | Thread Next