move doc about v-strings from perlop to perldata (suggested by

David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5452

diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index a122d34..4dbc765 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -274,6 +274,7 @@ integer formats:
     0xff                # hex
     0377                # octal
     0b011011            # binary
+    v102.111.111        # string (made of characters "f", "o", "o")
 
 String literals are usually delimited by either single or double
 quotes.  They work much like quotes in the standard Unix shells:
@@ -323,6 +324,17 @@ C<$days{Feb}> and the quotes will be assumed automatically.  But
 anything more complicated in the subscript will be interpreted as
 an expression.
 
+A literal of the form C<v1.20.300.4000> is parsed as a string composed
+of characters with the specified ordinals.  This provides an alternative,
+more readable way to construct strings, rather than use the somewhat less
+readable interpolation form C<"\x{1}\x{14}\x{12c}\x{fa0}">.  This is useful
+for representing Unicode strings, and for comparing version "numbers"
+using the string comparison operators, C<cmp>, C<gt>, C<lt> etc.
+If there are two or more dots in the literal, the leading C<v> may be
+omitted.  Such literals are accepted by both C<require> and C<use> for
+doing a version check.  The C<$^V> special variable also contains the
+running Perl interpreter's version in this form.  See L<perlvar/$^V>.
+
 The special literals __FILE__, __LINE__, and __PACKAGE__
 represent the current filename, line number, and package name at that
 point in your program.  They may be used only as separate tokens; they

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 53200eb..bd109ef 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ to print ordinals of characters in arbitrary strings:
     printf "%*vX", ":", $addr; # formats IPv6 address
     printf "%*vb", " ", $bits; # displays bitstring
 
-See L<perlop/"Strings of Character"> for additional information.
+See L<perldata/"Scalar value constructors"> for additional information.
 
 =head2 Weak references
 

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index ac9d4b6..9c8fa23 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -1796,22 +1796,6 @@ operation you intend by using C<""> or C<0+>, as in the examples below.
 See L<perlfunc/vec> for information on how to manipulate individual bits
 in a bit vector.
 
-=head2 Strings of Character
-
-A literal of the form C<v1.20.300.4000> is parsed as a string composed
-of characters with the specified ordinals.  This provides an alternative,
-more readable way to construct strings, rather than use the somewhat less
-readable interpolation form C<"\x{1}\x{14}\x{12c}\x{fa0}">.  This is useful
-for representing Unicode strings, and for comparing version "numbers"
-using the string comparison operators, C<cmp>, C<gt>, C<lt> etc.
-
-If there are two or more dots in the literal, the leading C<v> may be
-omitted.
-
-Such literals are accepted by both C<require> and C<use> for doing a version
-check.  The C<$^V> special variable also contains the running Perl
-interpreter's version in this form.  See L<perlvar/$^V>.
-
 =head2 Integer Arithmetic
 
 By default, Perl assumes that it must do most of its arithmetic in