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authorJeff Pinyan <japhy@pobox.com>2001-07-26 16:03:12 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-29 16:27:54 +0000
commit0926d669f0aeb90483227aeb54b96aaa4edee0f3 (patch)
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downloadperl-0926d669f0aeb90483227aeb54b96aaa4edee0f3.tar.gz
$^N foolery as well
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261958380.28213-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11474
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
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--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -472,10 +472,8 @@ This array holds the offsets of the beginnings of the last
successful submatches in the currently active dynamic scope.
C<$-[0]> is the offset into the string of the beginning of the
entire match. The I<n>th element of this array holds the offset
-of the I<n>th submatch, so C<$+[1]> is the offset where $1
-begins, C<$+[2]> the offset where $2 begins, and so on.
-You can use C<$#-> to determine how many subgroups were in the
-last successful match. Compare with the C<@+> variable.
+of the I<n>th submatch, so C<$-[1]> is the offset where $1
+begins, C<$-[2]> the offset where $2 begins, and so on.
After a match against some variable $var: