perlfaq6:

[email protected] (_brian_d_foy)
Newsgroups perl.perlfaq.workers,perl.documentation
Message-ID <291220020254361793%[email protected]>
* I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
   + $/ has always been a string, so "as of Perl 5.8.0" is misleading
   since it makes it read like the behaviour of $/ changed at that
   version.  I changed it to "up to".


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 =head2 I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's
wrong?
 
-As of Perl 5.8.0, $/ has to be a string.  This may change in 5.10,
+Up to Perl 5.8.0, $/ has to be a string.  This may change in 5.10,
 but don't get your hopes up. Until then, you can use these examples
 if you really need to do this.

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brian d foy, [email protected]
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