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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 19, 2008 03:10
Subject:
Re: Empty regex
Message ID:
20080619101009.GL99534@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:54:28PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> WRT split, this is *not* an exception in split, nor is it actually a regex
> feature. Rather, it is a feature of the match and substitute operations,
> but not split or qr. And there's a bug here, triggered by an
> optimization:
>
> $ perl -w
> use Test::More 'no_plan';
> my $x = qr//;
> ok("foo" =~ /foo/ && "bar" =~ /$x$x/);
> ok("foo" =~ /foo/ && "bar" =~ /$x/);
> ok 1
> not ok 2
Is that bug in RT? Does it have a TODO test yet?
Nicholas Clark
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