| Subject: | Doc patch - clarify %[number]N docs |
I spent a long time trying to figure out why I was getting a cryptic eval() error message, before I finally realized the brackets in %[number]N weren't literal, just for docs. The attached might help clarify.
| Subject: | 0001-Make-it-clear-that-the-brackets-themselves-aren-t-pa.patch |
From 67b76f0be4fcf7a8c757b0b320a3342d710e41eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ken Williams <Ken.Williams@WindLogics.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 18:05:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make it clear that the brackets themselves aren't part of
the %[number]N format.
---
lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm b/lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm
index 0ec21be..f389ec6 100644
--- a/lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm
+++ b/lib/DateTime/Format/Strptime.pm
@@ -1315,7 +1315,8 @@ Arbitrary whitespace.
=item * %N
-Nanoseconds. For other sub-second values use C<%[number]N>.
+Nanoseconds. For other sub-second values use C<%[number]N>, where
+C<[number]> is the number of digits (without the brackets).
=item * %p
--
1.8.0.1