From c9b06361f8e1461350181b8dbbcd002ad2c5bbc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John P Linderman Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 20:04:38 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Remove "8-bit" reference from ord documentation See http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2011-10/msg00079.html for additional background. --- pod/perlfunc.pod | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 5d15fe3..246ad2e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3835,8 +3835,7 @@ X X =item ord -Returns the numeric (the native 8-bit encoding, like ASCII or EBCDIC, -or Unicode) value of the first character of EXPR. +Returns the numeric value of the first character of EXPR. If EXPR is an empty string, returns 0. If EXPR is omitted, uses C<$_>. (Note I, not byte.) -- 2.7.4