[MacPerl] A bug in MacPerl?

[Virtuoso International <email@virtuoso-net.com>]

This is my first posting to this list, cheers. I'm programing and
testing Unix Perl applications locally on the MacOS platform, running
MacPerl 5.1.3r2 and wonder if the following bug is related to MacPerl.
Btw, I would like to thank Matthias and all the other contributors most
greatly for their unpaid efforts to create a Perl port for the Mac!

Now my question. MacPerl crashes on following regex examples which I
utilize in a search/spider engine. As soon as I add the "0 or more
times" anchor (*) it simply blows my system away! It took me quite a few
desktop rebuilds to track this gremlin down. The new MacPerl update
seems to be quite stable so far, compared with the previous version
whose omnipresent threat of a sudden system exit provided a refreshing
and suspenseful working environment...:):

s/(<(.*?|\n)*>|\&\#(\d*?);)//go;
	      --^--  

or s/<([^>]|\n)*>/go;
	         --^--

Is this due to limitations of the AppleEvent conception, or something
related to system memory or a MacPerl bug?

Philippe Wiede
mailto:pwiede@virtuoso-net.com

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