PATCH: [perl #117181] pod: nitpick

diff --git a/pod/perlform.pod b/pod/perlform.pod
index fc5d02b..190d12e 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlform.pod
+++ b/pod/perlform.pod
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ however you like.  Not very convenient, but doable.
 =head2 Accessing Formatting Internals
 X<format, internals>
 
-For low-level access to the formatting mechanism.  you may use formline()
+For low-level access to the formatting mechanism, you may use formline()
 and access C<$^A> (the $ACCUMULATOR variable) directly.
 
 For example:

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index ea27797..7088a9e 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3316,7 +3316,7 @@ many) where the 255/256 boundary would otherwise be crossed.
 
 Unicode semantics are used for the case change.
 
-=item Otherwise, if C<use feature 'unicode_strings'> or C<use locale ':not_characters'>) is in effect:
+=item Otherwise, if C<use feature 'unicode_strings'> or C<use locale ':not_characters'> is in effect:
 
 Unicode semantics are used for the case change.
 

diff --git a/pod/perlop.pod b/pod/perlop.pod
index 40402be..4ec0539 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlop.pod
+++ b/pod/perlop.pod
@@ -1659,10 +1659,10 @@ Options (specified by the following modifiers) are:
     o  Compile pattern only once.
     a   ASCII-restrict: Use ASCII for \d, \s, \w; specifying two
         a's further restricts /i matching so that no ASCII
-        character will match a non-ASCII one
-    l   Use the locale
-    u   Use Unicode rules
-    d   Use Unicode or native charset, as in 5.12 and earlier
+        character will match a non-ASCII one.
+    l   Use the locale.
+    u   Use Unicode rules.
+    d   Use Unicode or native charset, as in 5.12 and earlier.
 
 If a precompiled pattern is embedded in a larger pattern then the effect
 of "msixpluad" will be propagated appropriately.  The effect the "o"
@@ -2654,7 +2654,7 @@ expansions.
 
 Let it be stressed that I<whatever falls between C<\Q> and C<\E>>
 is interpolated in the usual way.  Something like C<"\Q\\E"> has
-no C<\E> inside.  instead, it has C<\Q>, C<\\>, and C<E>, so the
+no C<\E> inside.  Instead, it has C<\Q>, C<\\>, and C<E>, so the
 result is the same as for C<"\\\\E">.  As a general rule, backslashes
 between C<\Q> and C<\E> may lead to counterintuitive results.  So,
 C<"\Q\t\E"> is converted to C<quotemeta("\t")>, which is the same

diff --git a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
index 2611618..3dc1ce5 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrecharclass.pod
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ is valid and matches '0', '1', any alphabetic character, and the percent sign.
 Perl recognizes the following POSIX character classes:
 
  alpha  Any alphabetical character ("[A-Za-z]").
- alnum  Any alphanumeric character. ("[A-Za-z0-9]")
+ alnum  Any alphanumeric character ("[A-Za-z0-9]").
  ascii  Any character in the ASCII character set.
  blank  A GNU extension, equal to a space or a horizontal tab ("\t").
  cntrl  Any control character.  See Note [2] below.