[sf-perl] problem use Regexp::Common, "Can't Regexp::Common::FIRSTKEY"...

[Quinn Weaver]

On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Quinn Weaver <quinn at pgexperts.com> wrote:

> I don't have a full answer, but the immediate problem you're seeing is that the regex is a tied hash and one of the magic hash methods (FIRSTKEY) is not implemented. Why that bothers the debugger I don't know.

Oh, wait, I think I get it. I bet the debugger's x command is trying to display the tied hash by iterating over its elements, but it can't since FIRSTKEY is not implemented.

Anyway, the most straightforward solution is still the same: read the regex from source.

> 
> If you want to read the underlying regular expression, try 'perldoc -l Regexp::Common' (using the same Perl as your program uses, of course), then chop the .pm off the result and look in that directory for time.pm or american.pm.
> 
> Be warned: this may not help. Some regexes in Regexp::Common (e.g., profanity.pm) are so optimized that they look more like a series of letters and |'s than a regex you or I would write. If you find the Common regex unreadable, you might be better off writing your own after all.
> 
> Good luck! Hope that helps a little.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:39 AM, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I'm trying to be a good boy and reuse regular expressions from the
>> Regexp::Common world (ultimately $RE{time}{american}).  I have things
>> working, but as I was playing around in the debugger I discovered
>> something "funny".
>> 
>> It seems that any time I try to touch %RE I get an error, sometimes
>> things Go Badly enough that I end up back at my shell prompt.
>> 
>> It blows up with pretty much the same message in 5.14.2, 5.14.3 and
>> 5.16.2 on a current Mac OS X system.
>> 
>> (alacrity)[17:26:03]~>>perl -d -e ''
>> 
>> Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.33
>> Editor support available.
>> 
>> Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
>> 
>> Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
>>  use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
>>  h q, h R or h o to get additional info.  
>>  DB<1> use strict
>> 
>>  DB<2> use warnings
>> 
>>  DB<3> use Regexp::Common qw(number)
>> 
>>  DB<4> x $RE{num}{int}
>> 0  Regexp::Common=HASH(0x7fad2c02d828)
>> Can't Regexp::Common::FIRSTKEY at /Users/hartzell/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.14.3/lib/5.14.3/dumpvar.pl line 205
>> END failed--call queue aborted.
>> at -e line 0
>> 
>> This doesn't seem to keep my code from working but it smells funny....
>> 
>> Can anyone shed any light on what's going on?
>> 
>> g.
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