Re^2: Example of inconsistent regex matching (., /s)

Thank you, tye... but "brevity" and "baffled" both begin with "b" and I don't understand your observation. Have I missed such a use? I've removed all the newlines internal to each chunk (paragraph) and replaced them with a pair of \n (at Ln29-30) before applying the regex (of so I think).

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Re^3: Example of inconsistent regex matching (\n\s+\n) by tye (Sage) on Nov 22, 2015 at 00:41 UTC
My second guess would be that you are only reporting one match per paragraph and you don't look for a match in the paragraph that contains `$eot`. So one of the places where you think there is a "\n\n", there might actually be a "\n \n" or even "\n\r\n", which won't count as a paragraph boundary to Perl. The missing error could be clumped together with its prior error in a single paragraph that looks like 2 paragraphs. Or it could be similarly clumped with the `$eot`. And it would be easier to you to debug the situation than for me to make guesses remotely. - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Example of inconsistent regex matching (\n\s+\n)
by tye (Sage) on Nov 22, 2015 at 00:41 UTC

My second guess would be that you are only reporting one match per paragraph and you don't look for a match in the paragraph that contains $eot. So one of the places where you think there is a "\n\n", there might actually be a "\n \n" or even "\n\r\n", which won't count as a paragraph boundary to Perl. The missing error could be clumped together with its prior error in a single paragraph that looks like 2 paragraphs. Or it could be similarly clumped with the $eot.

And it would be easier to you to debug the situation than for me to make guesses remotely.

- tye

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