Re: [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa

On 18 June 2012 19:53, yves orton via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> Hrm, this is an unfortunate side effect of how the implementation of
> C< (?|..) > and (?-1) work together.  The \G is actually irrelevant as
> without it the pattern matches at a different place and does not use (?
> -1) to match.
>
> I had hoped that named captures would solve this problem, but they suffer
> from the same thing. I will investigate further.

I also noticed a weird parse bug if you write the original pattern
with (?&1) which needs to be fixed as well.

Yves


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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

• [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa by yves orton via RT
• Re: [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa by demerphq
• [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa by yves orton via RT
• [perl #112894] Use of (?| ...) breaks \G or vice-versa by James E Keenan via RT