Bug #123722 for PDF-API2: split deprecate

Hi Denis, Thanks for the bug report. It looks like that warning only shows up in very old versions of Perl (not since 5.12.0, which was released in 2010). The recommended workaround is pretty ugly... The original: my $space_count = scalar split /\s/, $text; becomes: my $space_count = () = $text =~ /\s/g; So, I just spent a while pondering how many old versions to support, and decided on six years and a bit, which I think is between double and triple Perl itself, and should cover most LTS server release schedules. As a note, you must be running perl with the "-w" flag, since deprecation warnings are explicitly turned off for that module otherwise (see "What's wrong with -w" in perldoc warnings). If you're stuck on 5.8.9 (released in 2008) and can't upgrade, you can get the warnings to disappear by removing the -w flag or by using the suggested replacement code above. I'd suggest looking into using Perlbrew or plenv as well (which let you install a newer version of Perl locally without needing admin privileges), so that you can get the many performance and security updates that have been added in the past ten years. -- Steve On Thu Nov 23 11:21:52 2017, denni.pat@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text