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- Ricardo Signes
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perlfaq-5.20240218

Changes for version 5.20240218 - 2024-02-18

add entry for "UTF-8 string" in perlglossary (PR#99, Felipe Gasper)
update the bug tracker advice to de-emphasize rt.cpan.org (PR#107, brian d foy)
plug CLDR::Number instead of Number::Format in perlfaq5 (PR#108, brian d foy)
misc code sample fixes in perlfaq4 (PR#109, brian d foy)
minor wording fixes in perlfaq5 (Karen Etheridge)
fix assertion about Python and closures (PR#114, E. Choroba)
improve the section on uniq perlfaq4 (PR#116, E. Choroba)
remove mention of Perl 4 in perlfaq1 (PR#113, Joelle Maslak)
document that smartmatch, given and when will be removed in Perl 5.42 (PR#115, Philippe Bruhat (BooK))

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To install perlfaq, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.

cpanm perlfaq

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install perlfaq

For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.

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