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authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-10-11 23:27:37 -0700
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>2012-10-11 23:27:37 -0700
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perlreapi.pod: Update RXf_SKIPWHITE section
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@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ the C<split> operator.
=item RXf_SKIPWHITE
+This flag was removed in perl 5.18.0. It is still #defined, so you can
+set it, but doing so will have no effect. This is how it used to work:
+
If the flag is present in C<< rx->extflags >> C<split> will delete
whitespace from the start of the subject string before it's operated
on. What is considered whitespace depends on if the subject is a