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| author | Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> | 2003-05-13 11:33:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-07-11 18:54:09 +0000 |
| commit | 6014d0cb2904bf89033c6aa0d3dbb1d1600d6994 (patch) | |
| tree | 506b2b283a48cddee7fa8dc08ef97f0f3039b063 /pod/perltrap.pod | |
| parent | 103dd89994b01bc194bfaf186624c2fb15f80afe (diff) | |
| download | perl-6014d0cb2904bf89033c6aa0d3dbb1d1600d6994.tar.gz | |
New introduction
Message-ID: <20030514013305.GB22001@windhund.schwern.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20154
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diff --git a/pod/perltrap.pod b/pod/perltrap.pod index 6a6a443568..d8f667c736 100644 --- a/pod/perltrap.pod +++ b/pod/perltrap.pod @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Accustomed B<awk> users should take special note of the following: =item * +A Perl program executes only once, not once for each input line. You can +do an implicit loop with C<-n> or C<-p>. + +=item * + The English module, loaded via use English; @@ -174,7 +179,9 @@ Variables begin with "$", "@" or "%" in Perl. =item * -Comments begin with "#", not "/*". +Comments begin with "#", not "/*" or "//". Perl may interpret C/C++ +comments as division operators, unterminated regular expressions or +the defined-or operator. =item * @@ -206,6 +213,11 @@ Seasoned B<sed> programmers should take note of the following: =item * +A Perl program executes only once, not once for each input line. You can +do an implicit loop with C<-n> or C<-p>. + +=item * + Backreferences in substitutions use "$" rather than "\". =item * |