Re: [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/)

Nicholas Clark wrote:
>But I don't know why this is,

Because it accesses its first arg, the format string, differently from
the following variable arg list.

>                              or whether there are any other listops that
>can be used to trigger the problem.

sprintf.  The common underlying function is do_sprintf().

-zefram

• [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/) by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/) by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/) by Zefram
• Re: [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/) by Zefram
• Re: [perl #77094] printf("a\n" =~ /b/) by Aristotle Pagaltzis