Re: minimal m//g matches appear busted

	Message-Id: <20000105152318.A7400@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4759

diff --git a/regexec.c b/regexec.c
index 4a674a8..0bd9da8 100644 (file)
--- a/regexec.c
+++ b/regexec.c
@@ -639,7 +639,10 @@ Perl_re_intuit_start(pTHX_ regexp *prog, SV *sv, char *strpos,
        /* Even in this situation we may use MBOL flag if strpos is offset
           wrt the start of the string. */
        if (ml_anch && sv
-           && (strpos + SvCUR(sv) != strend) && strpos[-1] != '\n') {
+           && (strpos + SvCUR(sv) != strend) && strpos[-1] != '\n'
+           /* May be due to an implicit anchor of m{.*foo}  */
+           && !(prog->reganch & ROPT_IMPLICIT))
+       {
            t = strpos;
            goto find_anchor;
        }

diff --git a/t/op/pat.t b/t/op/pat.t
index 5c564aa..9f68550 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/op/pat.t
+++ b/t/op/pat.t
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # the format supported by op/regexp.t.  If you want to add a test
 # that does fit that format, add it to op/re_tests, not here.
 
-print "1..194\n";
+print "1..195\n";
 
 BEGIN {
     chdir 't' if -d 't';
@@ -898,3 +898,10 @@ $text = "xA\n" x 500;
 $text =~ /^\s*A/m and print 'not ';
 print "ok $test\n";
 $test++;
+
+$text = "abc dbf";
+@res = ($text =~ /.*?(b).*?\b/g);
+"@res" eq 'b b' or print 'not ';
+print "ok $test\n";
+$test++;
+