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Re: [perl #119095] Empty regular expression does not match in somecases

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From:
Zefram
Date:
July 31, 2013 16:18
Subject:
Re: [perl #119095] Empty regular expression does not match in somecases
Message ID:
20130731161756.GM11327@fysh.org
Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
>Watch out for qr/$userre/.  I fixed that in perl 5.18 (commit
>6a97c51d3ccb), but in earlier perls qr// would trigger the same
>behaviour.

That's what the conditional in my example is avoiding.

-zefram
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