in reply to Re: Substr ref anomoly (revisited)
in thread Substr ref anomoly (revisited)

Good point. I forgot to mention that it wouldn't work at all before 5.8.3, but I thought the "one lvalue per substr" bug was fixed in 5.8.3. From davidos reponse it looks like it was nearly fixed in 5.8.3 and finally fixed in 5.8.4.

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