# New Ticket Created by Todd Rinaldo # Please include the string: [perl #75812] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=75812 > We've discovered that this snippet will break in perl 5.12 my $pid = "12345 "; if($pid =~ m/(\d+)/) { kill 9, $1; } it dies with this message: Can't kill a non-numeric process ID at test.pl line 7. The reason appears to be a result of this commit. http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e2c0f81f627951896aca833460887e6e8f20aba6?hp=32878f30ba1216461c8932946f0868cda9920d62 Using Devel::Peek, I'm guessing the problem is that IV doesn't get set on a $1 variable? For some reason I can't understand, I can make this problem go away if I do 'use 5.12.1' at the beginning of my code. $1+0 also forces kill to work.Thread Previous | Thread Next