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Re: Changes in m//m in 5.10

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From:
Andy Lester
Date:
December 19, 2007 13:59
Subject:
Re: Changes in m//m in 5.10
Message ID:
9E609722-7921-4DF7-918E-151BDDFACAB6@petdance.com

On Dec 19, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:

> The effect of /m is no longer global, but it now only affects the
> regexp it was applied to. No more unwanted side effects! See bug
> http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=22354
> Incidentally, that was to fix this bug that $* was removed.


So really, all this time the /m should have gone on the qr//, not on  
the m/$regex/ ?

xoa


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