[doc] Mistake in perlrecharclass

[kernschmelze]

Where
perlrecharclass

Description
In the section "Special Characters Inside a Bracketed Character Class"
there is this:

$a =~ m/[$,]/; # double-quotish: matches "\t", "|", or " "

That looks utterly wrong to me.

[iabyn]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:27:22AM -0700, kernschmelze wrote: **Where** perrecharclass **Description** In the section "Special Characters Inside a Bracketed Character Class" there is this: $a =~ m/[$,]/; # double-quotish: matches "\t", "|", or " " That looks utterly wrong to me.

What seems wrong about it? A few lines above that there is the line $, = "\t| "; and the point of that section is to point out that variables are expanded before the regex is compiled, so the example is equivalent to $a =~ m/[\t| ]/;

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[jkeenan]

It took me a couple of minutes when staring at the .pod file to realize where $, had been assigned to.

So I'd like to suggest a little documentation patch:
#17976

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

[jkeenan]

It took me a couple of minutes when staring at the .pod file to realize where $, had been assigned to.

So I'd like to suggest a little documentation patch:
#17976

@khwilliamson committed that patch and one other correction from @Grinnz last month. Closing this ticket.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan