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Also interesting is that the deparsed code is not equal. 

print length chr 12345

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outputs "1", and deparses to: 

print length "\343\200\271";

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which outputs "3" :)

Between chr and ord, things are consistent: ord chr 12345 is 12345 (maybe it should return 12345 % 256?) 

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Re: Re: Re: s/.// increases length - bug or badly documented feature
by BrentDax (Hermit) on Mar 01, 2002 at 09:39 UTC 
    >bleadperl -MO=Deparse -e "print length chr 12345"
print length "\x{3039}";
-e syntax OK

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    This apparently will be fixed in 5.8.0 (due out in May probably), and I imagine the change will be backported to 5.6.2 as well.

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