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From: utashiro@sran84.sra.co.jp (Kazumasa Utashiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: {n} is not equivalent to {n,n} any more
Message-ID: <215@sran84.sra.co.jp>
Date: 13 Aug 90 12:45:59 GMT
References: <9097@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: utashiro@sra.co.jp (Kazumasa Utashiro)
Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$_="123456789";
print "$1, $2\n" if (/(.{3})(.{3})/);
print "$1, $2\n" if (/(.{3,3})(.{3})/);
print "$1, $2\n" if (/(.{3,3})(.{3,3})/);
__END__

Feeding this message to "perl -x" produce:

123456, 789
123, 456789
123, 456

I think this is a bug incorporated by patch #19-27.

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K. Utashiro
utashiro@sra.co.jp