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From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: RE match problem in Perl 2.0 pl 18
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Date: 24 Aug 89 19:18:25 GMT
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In-reply-to: jv@mh.nl's message of 24 Aug 89 22:37:06 GMT

In article <JV.89Aug24163706@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>Using a regular expression in a match pattern seems to destroy the
>usability of the "$`" (dollar-leftquote) variable:

It's fixed in 3.0 alpha.  My output was:

$` = abc, $' = ghi
$` = abc, $' = ghi
$` = , $' = defghi
$` = abcdef, $' = 

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J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)