On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:32:25AM -0700, Thilo Girmann wrote:
> The statement "$s = $1" causes Perl to re-use the string "abcd"
> for storing the first half ("ab") and add a terminating zero.
> $2 still points to the original second half but the character
> "c" got overwritten neanwhile.
>
> So if the bug is present you will get " c" or just "c" printed
> out instead of the expected "cd".
I've added a TODO regression test for this in t/op/pat.t, but I'm not sure
how to fix this, without creating a speed hit by copying the matched string
every time.
Nicholas Clark
