I found this code 
my $str ="OK file1\nline2";
print "OK1\n" if $str =~ qr/^OK file1$/m;
print "OK2\n" if $str =~ /^OK file1$/m;

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works differently in 5.8.8 and 5.8.9 (5.8.8 prints only OK2)

And I was about to drop 5.8.8 support in my script. I am wondering is there any supported distribution which ships 5.8.8 (not 5.8.9).

I know RHEL supports 5.8.9 till Y2017

But what about 5.8.8?

related topic: What is a really old version of Perl?

UPD: RHEL still supports 5.8.8

UPD2: This code works right on CentOS's perl 5.8.8, but fails under perl5.8.8 on my box (perlbrew) and in this report http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/91d36572-eac6-11e2-90a1-fb47fbca4e08

In reply to I wonder if there are any supported distro with 5.8.8 perl (not 5.8.9)? by vsespb

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