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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
June 17, 2010 15:26
Subject:
Re: [perl #75812] kill $1 broken in 5.12.1
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AANLkTimEEaYFDUX0gbzSNZ7J3iAq-lKcA5ktWqM5El3s@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 20:34, Todd Rinaldo <toddr@cpanel.net> wrote:
> Any idea why use 5.12.1 makes it so kill $1 doesn't break?
>
> use 5.12.1;
> my $pid = "12345  ";
> if($pid =~ m/(\d+)/) {
>        kill 9, $1;
> }

I didn't check, but maybe due to the action at a distance regex
matches in feature.pm? They use ([0-9]+), not (\d+) b.t.w., not sure
if that matters.

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