Steve Peters via RT wrote: >According to our records, your request regarding > "(?>) causes wrongness on long string" >has been resolved. This has not been resolved. A patch went into 5.8.9 for one form of this bug, so it's resolved for 5.8. 5.10.0 suffers that form and another, but 5.10 has not been patched at all for this. Blead is also unpatched. -zefram