perl 5.6.1 bug report

[Neil Lunn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles S. Wilson [ mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu ]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:35 AM
> To: e.j.pronk@philips.com
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: perl 5.6.1 bug report
> 
> 
> 1. This looks like a CR/LF problem.  Cygwin's perl-5.6.1 is known to
> have, er, issues with line endings.  Look for a new cygwin 
> release when
> perl5-porters releases 5.6.2. 

Nope.

> > while ( $input =~ /(.*?)#/gsm ) {
> >    print "[$1]";
> > }

I think you meant /(.+?)#/gsm)
                     ^

And you will need to strip new lines from the result because you asked it to
with "s".

Neil

> 
> 2. Please don't send email to individuals on the cygwin list.  Use the
> list.  That's what it's for.  I have copied this message to 
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> 
> 3. If you *were* going to individually mail somebody about a 
> cygwin-perl
> problem -- why me? I don't have anything to do with cygwin's perl
> package. 
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> e.j.pronk@philips.com wrote:
> > 
> > This gives me an unexpected result with 5.6.1
> > I used 5.005_03 on Linux and 5.6.1 from activestate on NT as
> > second/third oppinion.
> > 
> > cygwin perl only matches aaa while the others match both aaa and bbb
> > (with some newlines).
> > 
> > Eddy
> > 
> > ===
> > $input = <<EOF;
> > aaa
> > #
> > bbb
> > #
> > EOF
> > 
> > while ( $input =~ /(.*?)#/gsm ) {
> >    print "[$1]";
> > }
> 
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