Someone on DALnet's #perl channel is having a strange regex bug that no one on the channel has been able to reproduce. If anyone here can reproduce it, please post the version and platform you're using. Here's the code: 
while ("this_is_broken_" =~ /(.*?)_/gs) {
  print "($1) ";
}

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On his machine (Debian Woody) running Perl 5.6.1, he gets "(this)" and nothing else. The -mre=debug output yields this startling message: 
(it just matched "this")
Match successful!
Guessing start of match, REx `(.*?)_' against `is_broken_'...
Not at start...
Match rejected by optimizer

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That's bad. Can anyone else reproduce this? The bug disappeared when /s was removed.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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In reply to Is your Perl broken? Bug help needed. by japhy

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