[perl #56194] Regex: (((??{1 + $^N}))) behaves differently in 5.10.0 than in blead

["Bram via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>]

On Sat Jun 21 11:03:51 2008, p5p@perl.wizbit.be wrote:
> While testing [perl #27603] to see if the warning is gone I noticed 
this:
> 
> 
> perl-5.10.0 -wle 'if (123 =~ /^(\d)(((??{1 + $^N})))+$/) { print  
> "match"; } else { print "no match"; }'
> match
> 
> perl-blead -wle 'if (123 =~ /^(\d)(((??{1 + $^N})))+$/) { print  
> "match"; } else { print "no match"; }'
> no match
> 
> 
> And:
> 
> perl-5.10.0 -wle 'if (122 =~ /^(\d)(((??{1 + $^N})))+$/) { print  
> "match"; } else { print "no match"; }'
> no match
> 
> perl-blead -wle 'if (122 =~ /^(\d)(((??{1 + $^N})))+$/) { print  
> "match"; } else { print "no match"; }'
> match
> 
> 
> Is this change of behaviour intended?

If I revert patch 32857 then it behaves in the same way as 5.10.0.

http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/32857


Kind regards,

Bram

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