This is the code I was using to test it: 

use GMS; #Own package, which in turn uses CGI, it was in there that I 
+was comenting out different lines to see if I could find the error

while(chomp(my $temp = <>)){
   print "Match\n" if($temp =~ m/^\w*?\@[a-z0-9.]*?\.(?-i:[a-z]){2,4}\
+z/i);
}

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I would run it and enter an assortment of addresses, to see if they could work. Usually, just test@you.com while I was trying to locate the bug. Interestingly enough, it works fine when I use
print "Match\n" if('test@you.com' =~ m/^\w*?\@[a-z0-9.]*?\.(?-i:[a-z])
+{2,4}\z/i);

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Though I can't imagine why it would operate differently just because of 'use CGI qw(:cgi);'...


My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.

Flame ~ Lead Programmer: GMS

In reply to Re: Re: Regex Unexplained Failure by Flame
in thread Regex Unexplained Failure by Flame

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