Hm, that's a misbegotten quantifier.
>From 5.26.0 perlreref:
There is no quantifier "{,n}". That's interpreted as a literal string.
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Mike Flannigan <mikef...@att.net> wrote:
>
> I recently installed the latest version of
> Strawberry Perl. My scripts were developed
> in ActiveState Perl.
>
> I have a line:
> unless ($text =~ /[a-zA-Z]{,10}/s) {
>
> When I run the script that line is in I get:
>
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here
> (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in
> regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[a-zA-Z]{ <-- HERE ,10}/
> at htmlpost.pl line 316.
>
> I see this:
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1104517
>
> I also see that escaping it with my ActiveState Perl
> messes up it's function entirely, but still allows it
> to run with no errors so I say this is a huge
> problem. Seems like the migration to Perl 5.30 is going to
> be interesting to say the least.
>
> Anybody have any other comments about this?
>
>
> Mike Flannigan
>
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