Re: Bug in formline

Re: Bug in formline

On Sun, 08 Dec 1996 19:06:42 +0100, Gary Howland wrote:
>Is this a bug?
>
>The following program:
>
>	#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
>	sub format_text
>	{
>		my $format = shift;
>		$^A = "";
>		formline($format, @_);
>		return $^A;
>	}
>
>	my $picture = '
>	A: @<<<
>	B: @|||
>	C: @>>>
>	';
>
>	print format_text($picture, 1, 2, 3);
>
>gives this output:
>
>	A: 1
>	   B:  2
>	  C:    3
>
>when I would have expected:
>
>	A: 1
>	B:  2
>	C:    3
>
>it seems that the carriage returns are incorrectly placed.
>
>
>If I change $picture to this:
>
>	my $picture = '
>	A: @<<< a
>	B: @||| b
>	C: @>>> c
>	';
>
>I get a segmentation violation from perl.

The latter should work flawlessly in 5.003_05 and later ("my" variables
as formline picture arguments were broken before).

The attached patch (against 5.00308, but should apply clean over 3_11
as well), should cure the first problem.

 - Sarathy.
   gsar@engin.umich.edu

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