[MacPerl] Just tested the \w meta-char on 514r4

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

Hi,

In writing recently to Lasse H Petersen I mentioned that the following
script:
   $string = join("", map {chr} (128 .. 255));
   @chars = split(/\w/,$string);
   print "$] $#chars\n";

would print non-zero results for $#chars for older MacPerls.  I am
happy to report that I just obtained a golden rare opportunity to 
retreive code from the internet beyond our firewall and can report
that MacPerl_514r4 does indeed return:

  5.004 0

for the above script.  Hence my reference to the difference between
MacPerl and others perl's regarding the \w regexp metachar no longer
is relevant.  Sorry to have confused you Lasse.

Peter Prymmer

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