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That's odd - I get an error diagnostic (Score:2)

by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2010.03.01 8:36 (#71738) Homepage Journal

I don't get a SEGV. I get an error that answers your question:
$ ~/Sandpit/5100/bin/perl5.10.0 -e 'qr/^([\w|\.]+)\s+(?(\d+)\s+)?(\w+)\s+(?:(\d+)\s+)?([\w|\d|\.]+)$/;' Unknown switch condition (?(\d in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^([\w|\.]+)\s+(?( <-- HERE \d+)\s+)?(\w+)\s+(?:(\d+)\s+)?([\w|\d|\.]+)$/ at -e line 1.

And that's on This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i686-linux

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