From msh210@gmail.com

Created by msh210@gmail.com

http​://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html paragraph 2 has $ where it
should have $|

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    category=docs
    severity=medium

Site configuration information for perl 5.18.2:

Configured by Debian Project at Tue Mar  1 17:12:59 UTC 2016.

From @cpansprout

On Thu Jun 02 13​:31​:35 2016, msh210@​gmail.com wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from msh210@​gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.18.2.

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[Please describe your issue here]

http​://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html paragraph 2 has $ where it
should have $|

The documentation that comes with perl 5.24.0 does say $| (but the | is represented by the pod escape E<verbar>). There seems to be a pod-processing bug. The ‘perldoc -oHTML’ that comes with perl handles this just fine, so the perldoc.perl.org site must be using some custom code that needs to be fixed. I am forwarding this to the perldoc.perl.org maintainer.

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From @iabyn

On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 01​:31​:35PM -0700, Michael Hamm wrote​:

# New Ticket Created by Michael Hamm
# Please include the string​: [perl #128311]
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# <URL​: https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl5/Ticket/Display.html?id=128311 >

This is a bug report for perl from msh210@​gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.18.2.

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[Please describe your issue here]

http​://perldoc.perl.org/functions/fork.html paragraph 2 has $ where it
should have $|

'make install.html' in both 5.24.0 and blead generate html that
contains

  <a href="...../perlvar.html#pod"><code>$|</code></a>

while the perldoc.perl.org URL contains

<a href="http​://search.cpan.org/perldoc/|perlvar#%24%7c">$</a>

So perl itself appears to be doing it correctly. I don't know how the
perldoc site generate their HTML or why its going wrong there.

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