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Re: s/.// increases length - bug or badly documented feature

by mattr (Curate)
on Mar 01, 2002 at 10:38 UTC ( [id://148545]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to s/.// increases length - bug or badly documented feature

Interesting, even if polymorphic regex not available yet there is a related regex recompiler (ShiftJIS-Regex) for Shift-JIS Japanese which is 2 bytes per character. I could certainly see that failing to shrink the string with a dot; got some very interesting results when I commented out the use statement once last year.
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