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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 1998-09-29 21:06:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-10-02 02:52:21 +0000 |
| commit | 17feb5d536e7c1a1b75d6e8e85a12d67b3d41c04 (patch) | |
| tree | 89e174fd557200f21db7ac1b39398734009641a0 /pod | |
| parent | d866897654588261ed8733ce10685e509cc36fb5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-17feb5d536e7c1a1b75d6e8e85a12d67b3d41c04.tar.gz | |
document yet another RE diagnostic, make it consistent with REG_INFTY
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:06:30 +0000
Message-Id: <v03110700b236f60b1375@[212.24.192.106]>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_52] Fix hard-coded "matches null string many times" limit
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 11:46:44 +0000
Message-Id: <v03110702b237beb04830@[212.24.192.74]>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_52] Add "Strange *+?{} ..." to perldiag
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1911
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 73b48a9386..08c73c3284 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -2422,6 +2422,14 @@ there was a failure. You probably wanted to use system() instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in a block by itself. +=item Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression + +(W) You applied a regular expression quantifier in a place where it +makes no sense, such as on a zero-width assertion. +Try putting the quantifier inside the assertion instead. For example, +the way to match "abc" provided that it is followed by three +repetitions of "xyz" is C</abc(?=(?:xyz){3})/>, not C</abc(?=xyz){3}/>. + =item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' (P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation stubs. |