Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!tchrist
From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: problem with {n,m} notation
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Date: 2 Oct 90 19:54:43 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
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Perl doesn't seem to handle {n,m} rexprs where n or m are double digits.
For example, this script has no output:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    $_ = 'aiiiiiiiiiiiiiib';
    if (/ai{6,25}b/) { print "ok\n"; }

I'm still at PL18, waiting for the dbm stuff to get fixed.

--tom
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