Basic HTML version of Foils prepared Sept 20 97

Foil 4 Some Key Advances in Perl5 -- II

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 -- Sept 20 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox,Nancy McCracken,Tom Scavo
Significant regular expression enhancements
  • parentheses implemented more cleanly: separating backreference ($n) and grouping functions added
  • Minimal as well as default maximal greedy matching allowed
  • Support for comments in regular expressions
Full support for pointers (references)
Various useful new routines such as my, qq, qw, q, quotemeta, lc, uc, lcfirst, ucfirst
Many new pragmas:
(use English; use strict 'vars' 'refs' 'subs';)

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