I was trying to answer a question on the perl beginners list (see http://learn.perl.org/) when I dumped core with the following code.

use strict;

my %allusers = (
        'users' => {
                'user' => 'Test Account',
                '*Crudles' => 'Hello World',
                'Crud' => 'Another Test',
                '*test' => 'Crud User'
        }
);

foreach my $key ( %{ $allusers{ users } } ) {
        delete $allusers{ users }{ $key } if '*' eq substr $key, 0, 1;
}

# result:

$ perl test.pl
      0 [main] perl 374831 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to 
+PERL.EXE.Stackdump
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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perl -v output:

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

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This was cygwin running on Windows 98. Even when trying to run this at a DOS prompt, I get a modal dialog box that reads:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

PERL caused an invalid page fault in
module PERL56.DLL at 017f:280705f1.
Registers: yada, yada, yada

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When running under DOS, it's 5.6.0. Is this a known bug? 'perl -c test.pl' tells me that my syntax is okay.

Cheers,
Ovid

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