in reply to Re^6: Converting Unicode
in thread Converting Unicode

"Even the Perl manual which I have in hardcopy form says this: ... (Programming Perl, p. 402)"

Programming Perl is not the Perl manual! It is a book describing Perl4.

Subsequent editions of that book described early versions of Perl5: Ed2=5.003; Ed3=5.6; Ed4=5.16 — none of which were hardcopies of the Perl manual.

You seem to posting a lot of FUD; especially in relation to Unicode. Please stop doing that.

— Ken

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Re^8: Converting Unicode
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Dec 19, 2023 at 19:00 UTC
    I have the third edition. As it says on its back cover:
    What's new in this edition? Practically everything. This third edition of Programming Perl has not only been expanded to cover the new 5.6 release of Perl, it also has been completely reorganized and fortified with numerous examples. Most existing topics have been dramatically reworked from the ground up, like object-oriented programming and regular expressions, and many brand new chapters have been added, including those on profiling, pod, Unicode, threading, compiling, and Perl internals.

    Part bible, part encyclopedia, and part almanac, this is the essential book on Perl.

    Note: "Unicode" was a brand-new chapter in this edition.

    Blessings,

    ~Polyglot~

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      5.6? 23 years ago!

      map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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