Bug 172792 - use of study() with utf8 support enabled breaks regexps
Summary: use of study() with utf8 support enabled breaks regexps
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 135975
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Reported: 2005-11-09 20:32 UTC by Jason Vas Dias
Modified: 2023-04-24 16:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-06 15:45:26 UTC
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Description Jason Vas Dias 2005-11-09 20:32:14 UTC
Description of problem:

Use of study() with utf8 support enabled breaks perl-5.8.7's
regular expressions :

OK without UTF:
$  echo 'ABDCEFGHIJK' | 
   perl -pe 'study; s/HIJK/1234/;'
ABDCEFG1234

$ echo 'ABCDEFGHIJK' |
  perl -e '$_=<>; study; print /HIJK/,"\n";'
1

FAILS with UTF:
$ echo 'ABDCEFGHIJK' |
  PERL_UNICODE=31 perl -pe 'study; s/HIJK/1234/;'
ABDCEFGHIJK

$ echo 'ABCDEFGHIJK' | 
  PERL_UNICODE=31 perl -e '$_=<>; study; print /HIJK/,"\n";'

(re did not match)

Seems to be study() that is the culprit:
$ echo 'ABDCEFGHIJK' | 
  PERL_UNICODE=31 perl -pe 's/HIJK/1234/;'
ABDCEFG1234

And it is because $_ gets utf8-ness from STDIN:

$ echo 'ABDCEFGHIJK' |
  PERL_UNICODE=63 perl -e '$_=<>; study; print /HIJK/ ? "OK" : "FAIL","\n";'
FAIL

$ PERL_UNICODE=63 perl -e '$_="ABDCEFGHIJK"; study; print /HIJK/ ? "OK" :
"FAIL","\n";'
OK

This was in the 'en_US.UTF-8' locale. If I make utf-8 support
conditional on locale, the problem goes away for the C locale:

$ echo 'ABDCEFGHIJK' |
  PERL_UNICODE=127 LC_ALL=C perl -e '$_=<>; study; print /HIJK/ ? "OK" :
"FAIL","\n";'
OK

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ALL perl versions

How reproducible:
100%

Additional Information:

This is upstream perl bug 37646 ( http://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=37646 )

Comment 1 Robin Norwood 2006-10-01 23:34:26 UTC
assigning to rnorwood

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-03-06 15:45:26 UTC
The perl bug tracker was closed. It should be fixed in perl-5.10 soon.


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