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On 5 February 2012 05:48, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> wrote: >> >> "Eric Brine via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote >> on Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:19:41 PST: >> >> > Also note that "e" is not mentioned in perlre. The regex flags >> > are (as listed in perlre): m, s, i, x, p, g, c, a, d, l, u. >> >> That's incorrect, and potentially misleading. >> >> With blank lines removed for brevity, these are >> the only pattern modifiers: > > > You removed "g" and "c", but they are accepted in patterns. > >>perl -wcE"qr/(?c:foo)/;" > Useless (?c) - use /gc modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?c <-- > HERE :foo)/ at -e line 1. > -e syntax OK > >>perl -wcE"qr/(?g:foo)/;" > Useless (?g) - use /g modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?g <-- > HERE :foo)/ at -e line 1. > -e syntax OK Personally I consider "ignored and produce warnings" to be quite different from "accepted in patterns". Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next