I guess I won the lottery. Update: darn ! Juerd beat me to it :)

corion@brother:~$ perl -le 'while ("this_is_broken_" =~ /(.*?)_/gs) {_ +/gs) { print "($1) "; } ' (this) corion@brother:~$

My system is Debian 2.2 (potato?), the Perl is perl 5.6.1, as compiled by me on that platform. No patches or other funky stuff were applied by me.

corion@brother:~$ perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio +n: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.2.17, archname=i586-linux uname='linux brother 2.2.17 #3 fri feb 9 12:59:43 cet 2001 i586 un +known ' config_args='-de' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultipl +icity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LA +RGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)', gcc +osandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1 +2 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', + lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl. +a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynami +c' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Dec 29 2001 15:44:07 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i586-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i586-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .

Update 2: Under IndigoPerl v5.6.1 (build 626), the above code works as it should and prints the three words.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web

In reply to Re: Is your Perl broken? Bug help needed. by Corion
in thread Is your Perl broken? Bug help needed. by japhy

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