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

On Sat Jun 23 05:30:03 2012, demerphq wrote:
> On Mon Jun 18 12:57:33 2012, sprout wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Yes, thanks for the pointer. I have now resolved the problem and closed 
> that ticket.
> 
> cheers,
> yves
> 
> 
> 
> 


Yves, can we get an update on the status of *this* RT?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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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