Re: [perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:07:15PM -0000, Tobias Spranger wrote:

> It seem's that perl's regex parser regards strings (or integers?) of the 
> form /0+[89]\d*/ undefined. (I also tried this with more leading zeros and 
> more trailing numbers in $a and got the same errors).

> I hope this information is sufficient to solve this bug. If not, feel free to 
> ask me for more information.

Thanks for your report, but this is not a bug.  Numeric literals
starting with a zero are octal and the digits 8 and 9 are obviously
invalid there.

perldoc perldata for more information.

-- 
Paul Johnson - paul@pjcj.net
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• [perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/ by Tobias Spranger
• Re: [perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/ by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
• Re: [perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/ by Paul Johnson
• Re: [perl #32915] "Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator" while evaluating a string that match /0+[89]\d+/ by Tobias Spranger
• [perl #32915] "use numbase" by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #32915] "use numbase" by Leon Timmermans via RT
• [perl #32915] "use numbase" by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #32915] "use numbase" by Johan Vromans