Bug#681849: perl: regex negative lookbehind does not work before $

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:06:05PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> The negative look-behind assertion does not work correctly before $ (the
> end-of-line assertion).
> 
> I expect to be able to say "match lines that do not end in bar"
> using the regex /(?<!bar)$/ .  However this does not work:
> 
> % (echo foo; echo bar; echo foobaz) | perl -ne 'print if(/(?<!bar)$/)'
> foo
> bar
> foobaz
> %
> 
> It should not have printed "bar" above.  

Hi,

As this isn't a Debian specific issue I've forwarded this upstream:

https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=114452

I've also added you as a requestor on that ticket (let me know if
that's not what you want).

Cheers,
Dominic.

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