From 43e59f7b885e66c2a874b2a383ecf6b2e6d96cba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Williamson Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:30:04 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] perlretut: Mention 'alert' for \a --- pod/perlretut.pod | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod index 78b5636..df0865b 100644 --- a/pod/perlretut.pod +++ b/pod/perlretut.pod @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ In addition to the metacharacters, there are some ASCII characters which don't have printable character equivalents and are instead represented by I. Common examples are C<\t> for a tab, C<\n> for a newline, C<\r> for a carriage return and C<\a> for a -bell. If your string is better thought of as a sequence of arbitrary +bell (or alert). If your string is better thought of as a sequence of arbitrary bytes, the octal escape sequence, e.g., C<\033>, or hexadecimal escape sequence, e.g., C<\x1B> may be a more natural representation for your bytes. Here are some examples of escapes: -- 2.7.4