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Alex Vandiver wrote: > As discussed at http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=261206 there is a small > bug with stringification of regexes containing escaped #s with the /x > modifier. The patch below fixes it; thanks to BrowserUK for the > impetus. As far as I can tell, the stringified form of a regexp is only useful for debugging purposes, to dump the inner contents of a regexp. And that's exactly what it does, since perl has internally added an \n (as someone pointed out on the perlmonks thread.) Thus I don't see the interest for your patch ?Thread Previous | Thread Next