"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.
I ran smack into this one too. It works on 5.005_03, but fails on 5.6.1, so I figured it's a bug. Does anyone have a different version of perl to try it on? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe Perl golf is useful, after all -- as a QA tool to find > Perl bugs. :) -- Rick Klement