On 24/10/2021 12:59, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> On 10/23/21 18:03, Bruce Gray wrote:
>> As to your "null string", I am glad that you resolved your problem,
>> but I cannot get this code to hang:
>> $NewRev ~~ s/ ^ .*? ('Release Notes <strong>V') //;
>> , just by preceding it with this line:
>> $NewRev = '';
>> , so I may misunderstand the nature of your accident.
>
> It would be unusual for you to have been able to
> duplicate it. It had to travel through an external
> call to curl and be read back from STDIN. Come
> to think of it, whatever was in it (curl showed a
> zero length download), it probably was not a nul.
you probably had a variable that was undefined, rather than containing
an empty string, or perhaps you had something else in the variable as as
Raku has many types but why anything would actually hang the program
instead of returning an error I could not say.
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