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From: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl bug (pl 44)
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Date: 9 Feb 91 04:46:16 GMT
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The following (erroneous?) script gets a memory fault on a Sun-4 running 4.0.3:

while (<>)
{
    ( $start, $end, $line ) =~ /(\d+)-(\d+):(.*\n)/;

    @foo = $start .. $end;

}

perl -v

This is perl, version 3.0

$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.10 91/01/11 18:22:48 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 44

@alex
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