On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:31:33PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
The second, in the regex engine, causes '.' to match against
bytes rather than characters when using the /s operator for
the regex match. I thought I had a suitable patch, unfortunately
it merely succeeded in breaking \C instead :-( I've attached
it anyway as it may help someone else develop a proper patch
for this problem. Also attached a script to demo the problem.
Will investigate, thanks for the demo script. (The \C is Evil.)The second, in the regex engine, causes '.' to match against
bytes rather than characters when using the /s operator for
the regex match. I thought I had a suitable patch, unfortunately
it merely succeeded in breaking \C instead :-( I've attached
it anyway as it may help someone else develop a proper patch
for this problem. Also attached a script to demo the problem.
works for you.
A propos, these patches may or may not apply cleanly to the 5.7.2
sources, since more patching has been happening nearby: you may want
to subscribe to perl5-porters and wait for the next developer snapshot.
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