[5620] in testers
perl sort of bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Sat Jul 5 10:14:26 2003
Message-Id: <200307051414.h65EEOww023565@geskekelud.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 10:14:24 -0400
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
I have some perl scripts which (apparently wrongly) used \% to print a
percent sign. (This only seems to work if followed by a |, but it
was.)
Anyway, perl in 9.1 and 9.2 behave differently for this:
#!/usr/athena/bin/perl
$a = 1;
$b = 2;
$c = 3;
printf "%4.0d\% | %4.0d\%\n", $a, $b, $c;
will print 1% | 2% under 9.1, and will print 1% | 3% under 9.2.
Since \% isn't correct, I'm not sure how much of a bug it is to say
"The wrong thing behaves differently now", but it was certainly weird.
-Laura
