Re: Strange regular expression warning

in reply to Strange regular expression warning

It means you have an old version of Perl , I mean really old like Perl 4 , on the server.

I would recommend upgrading the Perl or using a more recent one if available but swapping round the *. to .* in your regular expression will fix it.

/J\

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Re^2: Strange regular expression warning by Joost (Canon) on Jul 15, 2004 at 15:31 UTC
As far as I can make out by googling, this message is emitted by 5.00404 (don't know about older/newer versions, except that it's not in perldiag for 5.8.5) edit: that still means you should probably upgrade the perl on the server (or install a newer version next to it) "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^2: Strange regular expression warning by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jul 15, 2004 at 15:17 UTC
perl4 wouldn't take a block as an operand to grep. We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.	[reply]

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