Perl and info index (Re: Newbie question: Howto remove only first element from a list)



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