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In article <20020808055342.GA19668@iki._i>, Juho Snellman <jsnell@iki.fi> writes: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 07:11:17AM +0200, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: >> En op 08 augustus 2002 sprak Ton Hospel: >> > Juho snellman won ahead of Eugene van der Pijll with a very minimal >> > distance. >> >> Congratulations, Juho! If I had known this, I would have get up half an >> hour earlier... > > I had my alarm on at 06:50 EET, "just in case". Finding you ahead by > ..01 wasn't exactly the best wakeup I've had. Luckily, BoB was still > looming ahead, so I knew there was *something* to be done. How BoB > thought of using ?? to match the same regexp multiple times, I can't > imagine. > Bob was just plain lucky. He incorrectly thought that the fact that it's a different $_ each time was what made it work. But it's yet another funky feature of the empty regex (which seems to have been "fixed" in 5.8.0).Thread Previous | Thread Next