Bug #118096 for Perl-Dist-Strawberry: double-quotes in regex on command line

Experimenting further, it appears that only the change you proposed to the [] is required to get it to work!  That is to say, this program works:"if ( m/fldinst\{HYPERLINK \"mailto:([^^^"""]+)/ ) {print $1.\", \";}" whereas [^\"] does NOT work.  Since you know why that's so, could you please explain? :))

That's surprising, though, because I've never had to escape it when it's a start-of-line anchor -- as in /^

Anyway, thank you, to keep helping me with this even after it became clear it was a Windows issue, not Strawberry Perl, was very kind of you.

P.S. When I wrote "single-quote", I meant double-quote. Sorry; guess I've got quote-marks on the brain. From: Bugs in Perl-Dist-Strawberry via RT <bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry@rt.cpan.org> To: andy.carver@yahoo.com Sent: Monday, 26 September 2016, 20:09 Subject: [rt.cpan.org #118096] AutoReply: double-quotes in regex on command line Greetings, This message has been automatically generated in response to the creation of a trouble ticket regarding:     "double-quotes in regex on command line", a summary of which appears below. There is no need to reply to this message right now.  Your ticket has been assigned an ID of [rt.cpan.org #118096].  Your ticket is accessible on the web at:     https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118096 Please include the string:         [rt.cpan.org #118096] in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. To do so, you may reply to this message.                         Thank you,                         bug-Perl-Dist-Strawberry@rt.cpan.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I doubt I 'm the first person to notice this. Seems like I've got to be overlooking something. Here is a command line I ran on an RTF file, to extract some email addresses from it. You'll note that the program is on the command line too: perl -w -n -e "if ( m/fldinst\{HYPERLINK \"mailto:([^\"]+)/ ) {print $1.\", \";}" "My List of people.rtf" This being Windows, I had to escape the " in several places in the code, to get things to run. Notably, that worked in some places, not in others.  In particular, the first occurrence of it, inside the regex, did not work; it would not match a single-quote in my data. (This was pure ANSI text I fed it, no Unicode. Changing the \" to \W made it run.) On the other hand, the second occurrence, still inside the regex but within [^\"], did work. I used the latest 32-bit install, "perl 5, version 24, subversion 0 (v5.24.0) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int". I'm on Windows 10. This is not major; but if folks don't know about it, it can be perplexing! (Then again, maybe I'M the only one who didn't know... :-/ It does seem like it might be just an unavoidable downside of using Windows...) Many thanks, Andy