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diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index e1f30a324a..2db4139c30 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ The "grab all you can, and do not give anything back" semantic is desirable in many situations where on the first sight a simple C<()*> looks like the correct solution. Suppose we parse text with comments being delimited by C<#> followed by some optional (horizontal) whitespace. Contrary to -its appearence, C<#[ \t]*> I<is not> the correct subexpression to match +its appearance, C<#[ \t]*> I<is not> the correct subexpression to match the comment delimiter, because it may "give up" some whitespace if the remainder of the pattern can be made to match that way. The correct answer is either one of these: |