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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
March 8, 2002 07:16
Subject:
Re: TPR1 post-mortem
Message ID:
20020308101557.E1569816@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:16:10PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> A question of my own: why doesn't
>
> s/\B.\B/$&$&/g
>
> work as I expect, namely abcd -> abbccd. I really can't figure it out
> by reading the docs.
It works as expected in perl5.005_3 and perl5.7.2. There are many subtle
bugs in the regex engine in perl5.6.0 and perl5.6.1.
Ronald
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