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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <
rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, the regexp engine in 5.8.x is not reentrant -- you can't use a
> regular expression inside another one. That was fixed in 5.10 as part
> as a rewrite work on the regexp internals.
>
Isn't the problem here that 5.8 suffered from very a sticky /m? Under 5.8,
the OP's code is equivalent to
$rules =~ s{^RULES\n(.*?)^ENDRULES}{
my $c = $1;
#$c =~ s/\n$/ARGH/; # Original
$c =~ s/\n$/ARGH/m; # Equivalent
print ">>$c<<\n\n";
}gems;
It was fixed in the patch that removed $*.
- Eric
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