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On 29 July 2013 18:26, Philip Hazel <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> # New Ticket Created by Philip Hazel
> # Please include the string: [perl #119073]
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> # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119073 >
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> This is a bug report for perl from ph10@cam.ac.uk,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.18.0.
>
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> [Please describe your issue here]
>
> $ perl -e '"b" =~ /(?1)(?:(b)){0}/; print ">$&<\n";'
>><
>
> In previous versions of Perl, this would print >b< that is, the regex matched
> "b", which is what I think it should.
I think this is fallout from the {0} => NOTHING optimization. It
appears this optimization cannot be applied when the patterns are
recursive.
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
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