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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: "print" bug in subscripting with $[
Message-ID: <7280@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 21:34:15 GMT
Reply-To: schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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The following one-liner demonstrates one aspect of the problem:

    % perl -e 'sub oops { print "$_[$[]?\n"; }; do oops("aha");' 
    Invalid component in string or format at /tmp/perl-e005977 line 2.

Interestingly, if the "?" is omitted, it prints "aha" but without the
newline (% is the csh prompt):

    % perl -e 'sub oops { print "$_[$[]\n"; }; do oops("aha");' 
    aha%

This is 3.0 patchlevel 6, so feel free to tell me it's already working.
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "February.  The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
                                                                    -- Duffy

schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)