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yes, but what about /(\w)+/

From:
Jeff Pinyan
Date:
February 18, 2000 05:11
Subject:
yes, but what about /(\w)+/
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0002180809070.22615-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
Ok, so the \w{3} bug I asked about was fixed, but what of

  print "abc" =~ /(\w)+/;  # c

Is that a bug?  Was it fixed in 5.5.3?  Or is that behavior documented
somewhere that I've not seen?

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