From 41b9272f1653a282919f6be9f5541456cf548194 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:28:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document new escapes in perldelta p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31276 --- pod/perl595delta.pod | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perl595delta.pod b/pod/perl595delta.pod index 5c1ef23..d0f37a8 100644 --- a/pod/perl595delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl595delta.pod @@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ that can now be converted to which is much more efficient. (Yves Orton) +=item Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak + +Regular expressions now recognize the C<\v> and C<\h> escapes, that match +vertical and horizontal whitespace, respectively. C<\V> and C<\H> +logically match their complements. + +C<\R> matches a generic linebreak, that is, horizontal whitespace, plus +the multi-character sequence C<"\x0D\x0A">. + =back =head2 The C<_> prototype -- 2.7.4