It turns out that the problem is related to the recently added regex feature

No, the problem is using a regex to match a literal string without telling it that this is what you wanted to do! The recent \p regex addition just made these bugs more noticeable.

If you ever see a regex with $var in it, you should suspect that \Q$var\E is what should have been used. Looking through Config.pm, I only find one (uncommented) case of this mistake, but it is probably fine since the $var in that case should only contain letters.

So are you the one coding regexen incorrectly this way? If so, the solution is quite simple. If you replace m!$rootb/(.*)/(\w+)\.p.+$!i; with m!\Q$rootb\E/(.*)/(\w+)\.p.+$!i;, for example, then that problem goes away.

Next you have to deal with your misconception that you can use a single character as the directory separator. I suggest you look into File::Spec instead of hand-rolled regexen for comparing paths.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Can't find unicode character property definition via main-e or e.pl at unicode/Is/e.pl line 0 by tye
in thread Can't find unicode character property definition via main-e or e.pl at unicode/Is/e.pl line 0 by Rudif

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