On 22 July 2013 02:32, Tony Cook via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Wed Jul 17 07:14:53 2013, demerphq wrote: >> I see nothing that deals with something like this: "\0000" >> >> That is, a string containing an octal null followed by a zero. >> >> Or similar cases. The pureperl implementation DOES deal with this: >> >> $ perl -MData::Dumper -e'$Data::Dumper::Useqq=1; print Dumper("\0000")' >> $VAR1 = "\0000"; >> >> Now, I admit I havent *tried* the patch, but I did not see any code to >> look ahead at the *next* character and check if it is an octal digit, >> and if so force "three digit octal" mode. > > Slaven's original patch didn't handle this case, I wrote a follow-up > change that tested for and fixed this behaviour. Yeah, I meant to reply to this thread thanking you for that. :-) Thanks man! Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next