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On 17 February 2013 13:14, Dr.Ruud <rvtol+usenet@isolution.nl> wrote: > On 2013-02-17 02:15, demerphq wrote: > >> We changed which level of the perl parser handles escapes intended for >> the regex engine. >> >> Previous to this the \x20 would be resolved to a space, and as far as >> the regex engine was concerned the pattern would be " ". >> >> After this change the \x20 would be delivered to the regex engine >> verbatim and the \x20 form would not be recognized by the heuristic >> that handles the " " case. >> >> This change was very desirable for many reasons, and as it doesnt >> actually contradict the docs, unless Ricardo says otherwise I consider >> this Not A Bug. > > > See some split() cases below. So, #4 should behave as #7..10. > > So, the PATTERN "\x20" should be compiled as /\x20/, not as " ". So you dont agree that the original ticket is a bug? Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next