On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:16:10PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > A question of my own: why doesn't > > s/\B.\B/$&$&/g > > work as I expect, namely abcd -> abbccd. I really can't figure it out > by reading the docs.
It works as expected in perl5.005_3 and perl5.7.2. There are many subtle bugs in the regex engine in perl5.6.0 and perl5.6.1. Ronald
