It seems that your patch also fixed the bug 20000731.001: # This used to fail. $_ = "A \x{263a} B z C"; m/A . B (??{ "z" }) C/; I'm adding that test to regexp.t. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack CohenThread Previous | Thread Next