Re: Regular Expression Quick Reference

At 06:53 PM 2003-07-27 +1000, you wrote:

>Hmm. No comments from anyone here?
>
>      http://dellah.org/perlreref.pod
>      http://dellah.org/perlreref.html

It all looks wonderful!
Except I'm a bit torn over this:
    \x7f     Any hexadecimal ASCII value
    \x{263a} A wide hexadecimal value
Isn't there no difference anymore between \xNN and \xNNNN except
that the first can express values only 0-0xFF?


>Should I just send to p5p instead of here?
Hm, maybe p5p is good for something.  I don't know.


Tiny fixes:

% diff perlreref.pod~orig perlreref.pod
--- perlreref.pod~orig  Sun Jul 27 06:11:16 2003
+++ perlreref.pod       Sun Jul 27 06:10:36 2003
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  =item =~

  determines to which variable the regex is applied.
-In its absence C<$_> is used.
+In its absence, C<$_> is used.

          $var =~ /foo/;

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
  searches a string for a pattern match,
  applying the given options.

-        i  case Insensitive
+        i  case-Insensitive
          g  Global - all occurrences
          m  Multiline mode - ^ and $ match internal lines
          s  match as a Single line - . matches \n
@@ -135,12 +135,12 @@
     cntrl   IsCntrl             Control characters
     digit   IsDigit  \d         Digits
     graph   IsGraph             Alphanumeric and punctuation
-   lower   IsLower             Lower case chars (locale aware)
+   lower   IsLower             Lowercase chars (locale aware)
     print   IsPrint             Alphanumeric, punct, and space
     punct   IsPunct             Punctuation
     space   IsSpace  [\s\ck]    Whitespace
             IsSpacePerl   \s    Perl's whitespace definition
-   upper   IsUpper             Upper case chars (locale aware)
+   upper   IsUpper             Uppercase chars (locale aware)
     word    IsWord   \w         Alphanumeric plus _ (Perl)
     xdigit  IsXDigit [\dA-Fa-f] Hexadecimal digit

@@ -218,10 +218,10 @@

  =head1 FUNCTIONS

-   lc          Lower case a string
-   lcfirst     Lower case first char of a string
-   uc          Upper case a string
-   ucfirst     Upper case first char of a string
+   lc          Lowercase a string
+   lcfirst     Lowercase first char of a string
+   uc          Uppercase a string
+   ucfirst     Uppercase first char of a string
     pos         Return or set current match position
     quotemeta   Quote meta characters
     reset       Reset ?pattern? status


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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/