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Re: [MacPerl] Localization Issue?



At 16.14 -0500 1998.06.22, Alex K Suska wrote:
>In MacPerl, this code will extract all form tags from $fromInfo into
>@tags.  In
>any other ( as far as I can tell, DOS/UNIX) $& and $' are empty.  Does anyone
>know why?

Are you sure about that?

Could you make a self-containted test case and show what it returns on
other platforms, and give the versions of perl running on those other
platforms?

[FWIW, you should avoid using $& and $' if you can; they slow down every
regex in your program when used once.]

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