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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-09 16:33:07 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2011-04-12 12:34:50 -0600 |
| commit | f0f9b3b837ba5aa54ede5cd72ec0f3e00345c17d (patch) | |
| tree | be474cbf3091b0ea26456d9b624890d7e110e6e9 /pod/perlreapi.pod | |
| parent | e0d4127d4f78760fc7f7c1fa6ebacf705baedb07 (diff) | |
| download | perl-f0f9b3b837ba5aa54ede5cd72ec0f3e00345c17d.tar.gz | |
perlreapi: Update as little as possible for 5.14
This keeps the docs at parity with earlier Perls.
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlreapi.pod | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlreapi.pod b/pod/perlreapi.pod index 7028650549..1c694a7231 100644 --- a/pod/perlreapi.pod +++ b/pod/perlreapi.pod @@ -120,21 +120,26 @@ TODO: Document those cases. =item C</p> - RXf_PMf_KEEPCOPY -=back - -Additional flags: - -=over 4 - -=item RXf_PMf_LOCALE - -Set if C<use locale> is in effect. If present in C<< rx->extflags >> +=item Character set + +The character set semantics are determined by an enum that is contained +in this field. This is still experimental and subject to change, but +the current interface returns the rules by use of the in-line function +C<get_regex_charset(const U32 flags)>. The only currently documented +value returned from it is REGEX_LOCALE_CHARSET, which is set if +C<use locale> is in effect. If present in C<< rx->extflags >> C<split> will use the locale dependent definition of whitespace under when RXf_SKIPWHITE or RXf_WHITE are in effect. Under ASCII whitespace is defined as per L<isSPACE|perlapi/isSPACE>, and by the internal macros C<is_utf8_space> under UTF-8 and C<isSPACE_LC> under C<use locale>. +=back + +Additional flags: + +=over 4 + =item RXf_UTF8 Set if the pattern is L<SvUTF8()|perlapi/SvUTF8>, set by Perl_pmruntime. |