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On Mon Jan 16 17:09:30 2012, jwdevel@gmail.com wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from jwdevel@gmail.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.1.
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> When I run the following code, I get 'no' printed out, which is not
> what I expect.
>
> my $memory_file;
> my $fh;
> open ($fh, '>', \$memory_file);
> print $fh "abc";
> if( $memory_file =~ m/^.*$/ )
> { print "yes\n" }
> else
> { print "no\n" }
>
> This issue is discussed in more detail online:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8649916/perl-writing-to-a-
> memory-file-plays-tricks-with-pattern-matching/8650519
> http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=945256
>
> Some builds of perl 5.14.1 do not have this issue, others do (see
> discussion at PerlMonks link)
>
My results:
Darwin/PPC, Perl 5.14.2: yes
Linux/i386, Perl 5.14.2: no
Since Darwin/PPC is bigendian (per my Parrot %PConfig) while Linux/i386
is not, could this be an endian-ness issue?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=108398
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