It is a quirk of Perl's error reporting that an error inside an if block may give the number of the line on which the if block starts, rather than the line within the if block where the error actually occured. Thus, you may have to look within the if block that starts on line 30 for the source of the error.

Looking at tachyon's post, I see that this if statement is followed by a call to quotemeta. I expect that's what is causing the problem; quotemeta() backslashes everything except word characters, so it might use a function called IsWord to figure out if a certain UTF8 character should be backslashes or not.

Unfortunately, I don't know why the IsWord function has not been loaded. You may want to produce a small test case and submit a bug report using the perlbug utility that comes with Perl.

In reply to Re: Perl 5.6.1 Regular Expression problems (UTF8 ?) by chipmunk
in thread Perl 5.6.1 Regular Expression problems (UTF8 ?) by Pitr

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