Re: No need to escape right brace in regex

in reply to No need to escape right brace in regex

With Perl 5.18.2 on a Ubuntu 14.04 box I don't seem to get any error if I replace the double quotes for single quotes around the code, but when I try to reproduce the behavior in the cases you report (a.k.a escaping the brace or leaving it unescaped ) I get the following error

perl -le "$_=~/sub mymy\{}/;"

syntax error at -e line 1, near ";=~"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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The error is consistently reported in all the cases you mentioned in your follow-up reply too

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Re^2: No need to escape right brace in regex by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 21, 2014 at 10:21 UTC
Yes, I'm on Windows. I think you really need to stick with single quotes on Ubuntu, otherwise things get a bit weird with the setting and interpolation of $_. The Windows shell doesn't interpolate on the "$" sign - as "$" isn't meaningful on Windows like it is on Linux. On my Ubuntu-14.04 with perl-5.18.0, the first time I run the command quoted above, it's fine. But after that I get errors too. `sisyphus@sisyphus5-desktop:~$ echo $_ PATH $ perl -le "$_=~/sub mymy\{}/;" # No error here $ echo $_ PATH=~/sub mymy\{}/; $ perl -le "$_=~/sub mymy\{}/;" Backslash found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "mymy\" syntax error at -e line 1, near "mymy\" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.` [download] The actual error messages can vary a bit, depending upon what gets run when - but I've seen the same error as you reported. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: No need to escape right brace in regex by WHUK (Initiate) on Oct 21, 2014 at 11:28 UTC
That's right. The Windows shell does not apply on the "$" sign and is not significant on Windows as it is usually with Linux. Get an email address	[reply]

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