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- From: joel@abigale.UUCP (Joel Rosi-Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: locsym - First major upgrade ;-)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug.044830.4022@abigale.uucp>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 03:48:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug.202757.7799@abigale.uucp> <1349@minya.UUCP>
- Sender: Joel Rosi-Schwartz <joel@abigale.UUCP>
- Organization: Techne Research, Finchampstead, Berkshire (UK)
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- In article <1349@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
- >Marvelous little program! Much better than the clumsy sh tool that
- >I've been using. I'll keep my old one around for use on systems where
- >I can't sneak perl in, but locsym is definitely better, even if it
- >does get its speed by using a chunk of disk.
-
- My ego need that today, thanks ;-)
-
- >
- >There was, however, one very curious "bug" in both of the versions, as
- >they reached here. They contained the line:
- >
- >X if (/^.*\s+[ATDS]\s+([^_.].*)/o) { $symbol = $1 };
- >
- >The perl here rejected this because the sequence of tokens "$1 }" is
- >not legal. I changed the last two chars to ";}" and it worked just
- >fine. It was a bit of a surprise that version 2 had the same problem.
- >
-
- This is Okay in 4 PL35 and I think also PL19. I will include the ";"
- in any future release to save the few unfortunates un-needed pain.
-
- Cheers,
- Joel
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