Perl and info index (Re: Newbie question: Howto remove only first element from a list)
Subject: Perl and info index (Re: Newbie question: Howto remove only first element from a list)
From: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:16:10 -0400
Robert Dodier wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
> <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> Not sure what's going on. I'm doing this with the CVS version using
>> maxima-local, instead of installing maxima somewhere.
>
> The index is constructed by a Perl program which looks for
> regular expressions and notes the file offsets --- my guess is
> that Perl is treating the r.e.'s differently.
> The boxes I use for development have Perl 5.8.1 & 5.8.5 respectively.
This was done using perl 5.8.8 on Solaris. I'll have to look around at
my other boxes to see if this issue happens there too.
I would have expected perl's regexes not to have changed in a very, very
long time.
Ray