From 81c610653fc99bb30f5540b4bb5c7c0f33e4b05d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:11:12 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] perlretut: clarify confusing parenthetical

Resolves #22260
---
 pod/perlretut.pod | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pod/perlretut.pod b/pod/perlretut.pod
index e9709886b9ec..bac1f63449d9 100644
--- a/pod/perlretut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlretut.pod
@@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ to know 1) how to represent Unicode characters in a regexp and 2) that
 a matching operation will treat the string to be searched as a sequence
 of characters, not bytes.  The answer to 1) is that Unicode characters
 greater than C<chr(255)> are represented using the C<\x{hex}> notation, because
-C<\x>I<XY> (without curly braces and I<XY> are two hex digits) doesn't
+C<\x>I<XY> (specified as two hex digits without curly braces) doesn't
 go further than 255.  (Starting in Perl 5.14, if you're an octal fan,
 you can also use C<\o{oct}>.)