Length of $' seems broken.
$_='hello, Larry'; /a/; print length $';
Gives the answer 446468 on a Sunos 4.1.1 with Perl 4.019.
An overestimate? :-)
I first encountered problems when an ms-dos Perl 4.019 entered Nirvana
as a result of a sequence like
$e =~ /blah/;
$e = $& . $';
(yeah, I could probably do it with an s/.../ command, except I need
multiline matching, and writing (.|\n)* is against my religion)
I still haven't put my finger on exactly what causes the crash, but
since the last one blew away my MSDOS.SYS file, and all of them need the
BRS, I'm a little reticent at fiddling..
Ian
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