Says tilly:
I should note that Dominus' solution suffers from exactly the bug that tsee is trying to work around, except worse because he didn't think carefully about what happens if $/ wants to do a greedy match across a block.
Now, now. You don't know whether I thought about it carefully; you were not there, and you cannot see into my brain. The code may be wrong, or broken, or whatever. But in my opinion, I did think carefully about it. And on this matter, my opinion is the only informed one.

(I already mentioned these issues to him.)

Yes, but not in a way I could understand. I asked you to clarify several points, but I did not receive any reply from you.

I think that providing a test case that demonstrated the problem would have been clearer and more helpful than what you did write either in private email or here. Unfortunately, if you have produced one, I have not seen it.

Update: OK, I've now seen the example you posted later on. Thanks very much for posting it. The example was indeed much clearer and more helpful than either of your earlier messages. Can I suggest that since what you were doing here was essentially the same as reporting a bug, that the usual rules of good practice in bug reporting should apply? The test case was a lot more useful than any amount of additional verbiage would have been.

Thanks again. I will try to repair this bug before the book is published.

--
Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

In reply to Re: Regexes on Streams - Revisited! by Dominus
in thread Regexes on Streams - Revisited! by tsee

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.