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On 29 December 2011 11:48, Ed Avis <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > I expected a warning from these because \Q and \E are not matched: > > % perl -wE '$_ = "a"; /\Qa/ or die' > % perl -wE '$_ = "a"; /a\E/ or die' > > I suggest that at the end of the regexp, if a \Q is still open then > warn. > If \E is found but there was no active \Q \l \u \L \U then warn. > Maybe there shouldn't be a warning for unclosed \l and so on, since > that is not a quoting mechanism in the same way as \Q...\E. This construct is not regexp specific, and does not warn in other situations. perl -le'my $x="\Qfoo[]"; print $x' foo\[\] IMO, not-a-bug. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next