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| author | Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> | 2010-09-16 13:26:07 -0600 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> | 2010-09-17 11:34:10 +0200 |
| commit | 346e4e567b90e9980b46c684af017e17b763fa74 (patch) | |
| tree | 5cb14f97d4a2c8a43067a305739f0aabb87670dd | |
| parent | 2793cb42c554ddf216f1ffc5a6d2a867adcd6c0d (diff) | |
| download | perl-346e4e567b90e9980b46c684af017e17b763fa74.tar.gz | |
PATCH: perldelta entry for [\8] [perl #76840] fix.
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 6b77887c5d..190786312b 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -609,6 +609,14 @@ reference to a copy of a glob: This was a mistake, and the previous behaviour from perl 5.10 and 5.12, which is to treat \$var as a scalar reference, has now been restored. +=item * + +The regular expression bracketed character class C<[\8\9]> was +effectively the same as C<[89\000]>, incorrectly matching a NULL character. +It also gave incorrect warnings that the C<8> and C<9> were ignored. +Now C<[\8\9]> is the same as C<[89]> and gives legitimate warnings that +C<\8> and C<\9> are unrecognized escape sequences, passed-through. + =back =head1 Known Problems |