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| author |   millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2002-10-27 22:14:39 +0000 |
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| committer | millert <millert@openbsd.org> | 2002-10-27 22:14:39 +0000 |
| commit | 55745691c11d58794cc2bb4d620ee3985f4381e6 (patch) | |
| tree | d570f77ae0fda2ab3c9daa80b06a330c16cfe79f /gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm | |
| parent | remove MD bits from test. (diff) | |
| download | wireguard-openbsd-55745691c11d58794cc2bb4d620ee3985f4381e6.tar.xz wireguard-openbsd-55745691c11d58794cc2bb4d620ee3985f4381e6.zip | |
stock perl 5.8.0 from CPAN
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm index f2f7e0157cb..cd82abc75b5 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/bytes.pm @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ package bytes; +our $VERSION = '1.00'; + $bytes::hint_bits = 0x00000008; sub import { @@ -31,9 +33,6 @@ bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics =head1 DESCRIPTION -WARNING: The implementation of Unicode support in Perl is incomplete. -See L<perlunicode> for the exact details. - The C<use bytes> pragma disables character semantics for the rest of the lexical scope in which it appears. C<no bytes> can be used to reverse the effect of C<use bytes> within the current lexical scope. @@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ effect, the encoding is temporarily ignored, and each string is treated as a series of bytes. As an example, when Perl sees C<$x = chr(400)>, it encodes the character -in UTF8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, +in UTF-8 and stores it in $x. Then it is marked as character data, so, for instance, C<length $x> returns C<1>. However, in the scope of the C<bytes> pragma, $x is treated as a series of bytes - the bytes that make up the UTF8 encoding - and C<length $x> returns C<2>: |