# New Ticket Created by Hauke D # Please include the string: [perl #133782] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133782 > Hi everyone, This oneliner fails, when it most likely shouldn't: perl -e 'while( "\N{U+E4}bc" =~ /(..?)(?{$^N})/g ) { length($^R)==length("$^R") or die }' A slightly longer test program (attached) shows that on the second iteration, length($^R) is reporting 2 instead of the expected 1. It seems to have something to do with UTF8 strings, since it works fine on non-UTF8 strings. Tested on several versions of Perl on Linux and Windows (down to 5.8.9). Regards, -- Hauke DThread Previous