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

On Mon Jun 18 10:55:15 2012, demerphq wrote:
> 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.

You mean bug #101666?

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Father Chrysostomos


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• [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