Hi Perl Monks, the following: 
my $html = "\x{feff}<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC> <div class=\"course_detail_
+box_content\"> </div>";
$html =~ s!.*?</div><div\s+class="course_detail_box_content">!!s;

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yields the error 
Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow at 0x3c8443c3, byte 0x54, after st
+art byte 0xbf) in substitution (s///)

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for Perl 5.8.6 on MacOS X 10.4, Perl 5.8.8 on CentOS 5, Perl 5.10.1 on CentOS 6 but seems to work for 5.12.3 on MacOS X 10.7. Can someone confirm that this is a known bug and that it has been fixed from 5.12 onwards ?

In reply to Substitution bug on Unicode strings with Byte Order Mark (BOM) by tbusch

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