Re: Converting "’" to an Apostrophe?

A. Sinan Unur wrote:
In the mean time, here in 2008, in the docs shipped with Perl 5.10

perldoc perlop

s Treat string as single line. (Make . match a newline)

Great, that's a clarification I wasn't aware of.

Hopefully, in the future (Perl 5.12?), "perldoc perlop" will contain a useful explanation of the /m operator as well. Or at least a reference to "perldoc perlre".

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