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Subject: Re: majordomo.pl and Perl version 5.004_04
From: Mats Dufberg <Mats . Dufberg @ abc . se>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:51:08 +0100 (MET)
To: Chuck Freiwald <cfreiwal @ us . oracle . com>
Cc: Majordomo-Users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <37C164DA.9C94090D@us.oracle.com>

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Chuck Freiwald wrote:

> This is perl,  built for sun4-solaris. The script worked fine under
> Perl 5.0 but I have to use  5.004_04 because 5.0 has reserve word
> problems with another perl script (Majorcool.pl) I need.
> 
> majordomo@dukman> /usr/local/packages/perl5.004_04/bin/perl -c
> majordomo.pl
> /(^|([^\\"]|\\.)+)"([^\\"]|\\.|$)*"?/: regexp *+ operand could be empty
> at majordomo.pl line 519.
> 
> The offending line...
>     # Nuke anything within quotes.  Placate Emacs -------v
>     1 while $temp =~ s/(^|([^\\\"]|\\.)+)\"([^\\\"]|\\.|$)*\"?/$1/g;

You have a broken version of perl. Get the newest version and build it for
your platform.


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Mats Dufberg                                  Mats.Dufberg@abc.se




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