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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Bug in pl28 on regexp test?
Message-ID: <9540@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 Sep 90 22:55:42 GMT
References: <14496@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Distribution: comp.lang.perl
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <14496@cbmvax.commodore.com> schmid@spica.cbmvax (Bob Schmid) writes:
: I may have uncovered a bug in perl pl28 that did not exist in perl
: pl18 for the same test case, so I have gone back to pl18.
: 
: The problem seems to be caused by perl thinking 
: 
: ($Flds[0] =~ /^[0-9]+$/) 
: 
: is 1, even though $Flds[0] does not contain any numeric characters (is
: null, actually).

This is already fixed in my copy, so the next patch will have the fix.
Don't expect it for a while though--between my real work and The Book
(and sick kids), I've been totally swamped.

Larry