[ID 20000124.002] Unterminated C<...> at perlvar.pod line 188 and 424

[Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>]

This is a bug report for perl from robin.barker@npl.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl 5.00563.


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	% perldoc perlvar
gives
	** Unterminated C<...> at .../pod/perlvar.pod line 188
	** Unterminated C<...> at .../pod/perlvar.pod line 188
	** Unterminated C<...> at .../pod/perlvar.pod line 424

This is due to C<@-> and the like.

Patch below

Robin

--- pod/perlvar.pod	2000/01/24 14:28:49	1.1
+++ pod/perlvar.pod	2000/01/24 14:33:31	1.2
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 $+[>I<n>C<] - $-[>I<n>C<]> if C<$-[>I<n>C<]> is defined, and $+ coincides with
 C<substr $_, $-[$#-], $+[$#-]>.  One can use C<$#+> to find the number
 of subgroups in the last successful match.  Contrast with
-C<$#->, the last I<matched> subgroup.  Compare with C<@->.
+C<$#-Z<>>, the last I<matched> subgroup.  Compare with C<@-Z<>>.
 
 =item $MULTILINE_MATCHING
 
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
 Thus after a match against $_, $& coincides with C<substr $_, $-[0],
 $+[0] - $-[0]>.  Similarly, C<$>I<n> coincides with C<substr $_, $-[>I<n>C<],
 $+[>I<n>C<] - $-[>I<n>C<]> if C<$-[>I<n>C<]> is defined, and $+ coincides with
-C<substr $_, $-[$#-], $+[$#-]>.  One can use C<$#-> to find the last
+C<substr $_, $-[$#-], $+[$#-]>.  One can use C<$#-Z<>> to find the last
 matched subgroup in the last successful match.  Contrast with
 C<$#+>, the number of subgroups in the regular expression.  Compare
 with C<@+>.

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00563:

Configured by rmb1 at Mon Jan 10 17:12:56 GMT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 63) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos tempest 5.7 generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=define usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O -g', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/gnu/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/opt/gnu/include -DUSE_LONG_LONG -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib '
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/gnu/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00563:
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.00563/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.00563
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/site_perl/5.00563/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00563:
    HOME=/home/rmb1
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/rmb1/appl/script:/usr/tempest/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Admigration/exec:/usr/local/hotjava/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/csh

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Follow-Ups from:

Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>

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