Re: [perl #75812] kill $1 broken in 5.12.1

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 20:34, Todd Rinaldo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any idea why use 5.12.1 makes it so kill $1 doesn't break?
>
> use 5.12.1;
> my $pid = "12345  ";
> if($pid =~ m/(\d+)/) {
>        kill 9, $1;
> }

I didn't check, but maybe due to the action at a distance regex
matches in feature.pm? They use ([0-9]+), not (\d+) b.t.w., not sure
if that matters.