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From: phillips@cs.ubc.ca (George Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl buglet
Summary: panic: hint in do_match
Message-ID: <9890@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 90 21:17:56 GMT
Sender: news@cs.ubc.ca
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 11

Here's a little perl script and the error it produces:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$_="a\n";
s/^a//;
s/a$//;

panic: hint in do_match at - line 4. 

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George Phillips phillips@cs.ubc.ca {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!phillips