Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!warwick!expya!admin From: admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Small error in perl 3.0 production (perldb) Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 89 11:59:28 GMT Sender: admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Dept. - University of Exeter. UK Lines: 15 I have found a small error when using perl with -d option. On startup perl would complain about syntax error in perldb.pl. Sure enough I found a line $header =~ s/\$Header: perldb.pl,v 3.0 89/10/18 15:19:46 lwall Locked $/$1$2/; The fix is to change it to something like $header =~ s|\$Header: perldb.pl,v 3.0 89/10/18 15:19:46 lwall Locked $|$1$2|; -- Khalid Sattar JANET : admin@uk.ac.exeter.cs Computer Science Dept. UUCP : admin@expya.uucp University of Exeter BITNET : admin%uk.ac.exeter.cs@ukacrl Exeter, UK. Tel : +44 392 264062