Oi,

Recently, the machine I am developing my perl applications on has been upgraded and now has perl 5.6.1.
Today, when I tried one of my (webbased) applications I noticed that some functions did not work anymore.

Whenever the following line of code is reached: 
[...]
if($value =~ /^$allowed$/){
[...]

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The program exits with the following error: 
Can't locate object method "IsWord" via package "main" perhaps you for
+got to load "main"?) at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/utf8_heavy.pl line 30.

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The $value is a string given by the user, which is validated using a regular expression stored in $allowed.

According to the perldelta manual page, perl 5.6.1 introduces UTF8 support. I understand that this feature is still experimental, but that should not change the workings of regular expressions.

My $Question = What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
- Pitr

In reply to Perl 5.6.1 Regular Expression problems (UTF8 ?) by Pitr

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