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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
>> p5pers:
>> this rather old ticket from Rick Delaney points out that in the following:
>>
>> $some_pattern_string = 'A';
>> "aa" =~ /A(??{ $some_pattern_string })/i
>>
>> the returned pattern string is compiled *without* /i (or other such
>> flags), and thus fails to match.
>>
>> The question is, whether this behaviour is right,and the docs need
>> clarifying, or whether it should be "fixed".
>>
>> I lean towards not-a-bug and fix the docs, by analogy with
>>
>> my $some_pattern = qr/A/; # this doesn't use /i
>> "aa" =~ /A(??{ $some_pattern })/i
>>
>> which (correctly IMHO) fails to match.
>
> I think /(??{ $some_pattern_string })/ should do the same as
> /$some_pattern_string/, so I would see this as a bug.
>
> Leon
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