[perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma

On Sat Feb 04 04:05:02 2012, glitchmr@myopera.com wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from glitchmr@myopera.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.14.2.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please describe your issue here]
> 
> When '/e' modifier is used with 're' module, Perl complains about
>    unknown
> modifier. Personally, I think that informing about '/e' not being able
>    to be
> used by 're' module would be more useful.
> 

Agreed. I couldn't find any discussion of '/e' in 'perldoc re'


>     C:\Users\Konrad>perl -e "use re '/e'"
>     Unknown regular expression flag "e" at -e line 1
> 


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https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=109798

• [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by GlitchMr
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• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by Tom Christiansen
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• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by demerphq
• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by Tom Christiansen
• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by demerphq
• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by Tom Christiansen
• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by demerphq
• Re: [perl #109798] '/e' regexp modifier is not recognized by re pragma by Eric Brine
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