Not really weird, but I sometimes get caught being too fancy. I try to do a s///, and expect it to return the matches as a list. Sometimes I write this:
if ( ( $a, $b, $c ) = $current_text =~ s/$some_regex// )
{
# do something useful
next READ_MORE_DATA
}
in a parserish way. Then I have that forehead-slapping moment, and change it to this:
if ( $current_text =~ s/$some_regex// )
{
( $a, $b, $c ) = ( $1, $2, $3 );
# do something useful
next READ_MORE_DATA
}
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