[Melbourne-pm] named regexp matches ...

David Warring david.warring at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 20:00:29 PDT 2011


Malcolm,
I think this came in with the work on named captures re-written regex engine
in 5.10.0.

This variation is not clearly mentioned in the release notes (perldoc
perl5100delta), but is documented in
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0/pod/perlre.pod.

- David

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Malcolm Herbert <melbourne-pm at mjch.net>wrote:

> With which version did (?P<name>.*) get added to Perl's regular
> expression engine?  I have 5.8.7 on some hosts which doesn't have it,
> but am looking for the earliest version that does ...
>
> Regards,
> Malcolm
>
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