Re: Strange result from "abbbbbc" =~ /(b)*?(b*?)c/

What version of Perl gave you such things? I get $1 = undef, $2 = "bbbb".

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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Re^2: Strange result from "abbbbbc" =~ /(b)?(b?)c/ by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 01, 2006 at 20:39 UTC
I can reproduce his results with ActivePerl 5.6.1 `$1 = 'a' $2 = 'bbbbb' @- = (1, 0, 1) @+ = (7, 1, 6)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Strange result from "abbbbbc" =~ /(b)?(b?)c/ by japhy (Canon) on Aug 01, 2006 at 20:41 UTC
Perl 5.8.8 doesn't have this problem. Whatever it is, it appears to have been fixed. 5.6.1 is kind of "old". Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re^4: Strange result from "abbbbbc" =~ /(b)?(b?)c/ by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 01, 2006 at 20:44 UTC
It appears to have been fixed in 5.8.0. `$1 = '' (defined) $2 = 'bbbbb' @- = (1, 1, 1) @+ = (7, 1, 6)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]