Tye; Thanks for your reply, however, I think that the intended application here is:
List context... e.g my documentation says: 
 In list context, it returns a list of the substrings matched by 
any capturing parentheses in the regular expression.  If there are 
no parentheses, it returns a list of all the matched 
strings, as if there were parentheses around the whole pattern.

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This particular line of code  if ($sb =~ /<$fi>\s*(.*?)\s*<\/$fi>/is) { is attempting to capture all the substrings that are taged by string  <$fi>...</$fi>

It is highly possible that I am missing something, but if this is the intended case, do you still think that there is a bug in the application that was tolerated in 5.005 but not in 5.6.0

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Upgrading to new perl environment by skeeterpop
in thread Upgrading to new perl environment by skeeterpop

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