Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv
From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Minor bug in perl manual
Message-ID: <2624@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 24 Nov 88 11:19:14 GMT
Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
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Perl.man.2 contains a minor bug which causes the manual to be
processed wrong.

Line 1374 of perl.man.2 reads:

		 $] =~ /(\d+\.\d+).*\nPatch level: (\d+)/;

This should be:

		 $] =~ /(\ed+\.\ed+).*\nPatch level: (\ed+)/;

to prevent the '\d' from being processed by [nt]roff.
-- 
	Johan