Re: [MacPerl] Localization Issue?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 21.25 -0400 1998.06.24, 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?
>
>Mostly.
>
>>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?
>
>I will test again--but I have only 5.003 on DOS/NT and UNIX (BSD 4.4 under
>MachTen) besides MacPerl 5.1.9r4.

Well, like I said, you need a self-contained test case that demonstrates
that problem.  And I don't recall enough about 5.003 to know if that
version might have problems with $& and friends.  Certainly, though, you
should not be using 5.003, as it is subject to a major security flaw
through buffer overflow.  And on Windows, my understanding is that the
standard port (not the AS port) is superior.

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