[svn:perlfaq] r11397 - perlfaq/trunk

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Author: comdog
Date: Tue Jun 10 10:05:11 2008
New Revision: 11397

Modified:
   perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod

Log:

* perlfaq5: How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
        + Instead of "recent", say Perl 5.6, which isn't recent
        anymore
        + This answer probably needs a nice rewrite



Modified: perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod
==============================================================================
--- perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod  (original)
+++ perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod  Tue Jun 10 10:05:11 2008
@@ -613,10 +613,10 @@
 =head2 How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
 X<tilde> X<tilde expansion>
 
-Use the <> (glob()) operator, documented in L<perlfunc>.  Older
-versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that groks
+Use the E<lt>E<gt> (C<glob()>) operator, documented in L<perlfunc>. Versions of
+Perl older than 5.6 require that you have a shell installed that groks
 tildes.  Recent perl versions have this feature built in. The
-File::KGlob module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob
+C<File::KGlob> module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob
 functionality.
 
 Within Perl, you may use this directly: