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Andy_Bach
Date:
March 8, 2002 09:12
Subject:
Re: TPR1 post-mortem
Message ID:
OF9573FA31.A7B0E3B8-ON86256B76.005D8A92@uscmail.dcn
5.6.1
abbcd
5.6.0
abbcd
5.005_03
abbccd
5.005_02
abbccd
5.004_04
abbccd
5.000
abbccd
4.0.1.6p19
abbccd
4.0.1.8p36
abbccd
Andy Bach, Sys. Mangler
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Rick Klement <rklement@pacbell.net>
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03/08/02 09:19 AM
To: Fun With Perl <fwp@perl.org>
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Subject: Re: TPR1 post-mortem
"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.
I ran smack into this one too.
It works on 5.005_03, but fails on 5.6.1, so I figured it's a bug.
Does anyone have a different version of perl to try it on?
Andrew.Savige@ir.com wrote:
>
> Maybe Perl golf is useful, after all -- as a QA tool to find
> Perl bugs. :)
--
Rick Klement
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