G'day Rolf,

That feature was introduced in v5.34: "perl5340delta: Blanks freely allowed within but adjacent to curly braces".

My tests:

$ alias perle
alias perle='perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -Mautodie=:all -MCarp::Always -E
+'

$ perlbrew switch perl-5.32.0

$ perle 'say $]; say join ",",map {ord} split //, $_ for "\x{ 41 }", "
+\x{41}", "\x{263A}", "\x{ 263A }"; say for "\x{41}", "\x{ 41 }"'
Non-hex character ' ' terminates \x early.  Resolved as "\x{00}" at -e
+ line 1.
Non-hex character ' ' terminates \x early.  Resolved as "\x{00}" at -e
+ line 1.
Non-hex character ' ' terminates \x early.  Resolved as "\x{00}" at -e
+ line 1.
5.032000
0
65
9786
0
A


$ perlbrew switch perl-5.34.0

$ perle 'say $]; say join ",",map {ord} split //, $_ for "\x{ 41 }", "
+\x{41}", "\x{263A}", "\x{ 263A }"; say for "\x{41}", "\x{ 41 }"'
5.034000
65
65
9786
9786
A
A

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It's not mentioned in perlop, so a doco omission but not a bug in Perl itself. Perhaps raise a doco bug report.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Problem with escape sequence \x for hex with spaces "\x{ 263A }" by kcott
in thread Problem with escape sequence \x for hex with spaces "\x{ 263A }" by LanX

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