in reply to die in regexp

die, anonymous subs and accessing outer lexical vars, within re_evals are all currently very broken (in the sense that they may randomly coredump). Its something I'm still hoping to fix in time for 5.10.

Dave.

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Re^2: die in regexp
by bart (Canon) on Jul 03, 2006 at 22:24 UTC
    Uh, his example is not inside a re_eval, is it? I assume that by that you mean (?{...}) and similar constructs inside the regex. (perldebguts talks about "code assertions in regexes", but that's about all I could find about them.)

    The right hand side of a substitution is not inside the regex.

    This piece of code doesn't mention "re_eval" in its error message: 

    s/foo/die/e;

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    It just says 
    Died at test.pl line 3.

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    I believe die is safe, there.

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      Uh, his example is not inside a re_eval, is it?
      Ugh, that's what happens when reading web sites while having a cold :-(. Yes, I got completely the wrong end of the stick! die is safe in s//die/e.

      Dave.

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Re^2: die in regexp
by powerman (Friar) on Jul 03, 2006 at 21:32 UTC
    Thanks!
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