| Subject: | advice of CPAN.pm leads to perl error message |
While trying to clean up my build directory, I stumbled across this
(yes, I know, it does not work this way):
Show quoted text
cpan> clean *
Warning: Cannot clean *, don't know what it is.
Try the command
i /*/
to find objects with matching identifiers.
Show quoted textcpan> i /*/
Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- HERE /
Yes, my problem is answered in the FAQ (No. 18), but CPAN.pm should not
suggest something leading to a perl error.
Maybe the special regex tokens should be escaped?
Show quoted textcpan> i /\*/
Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/* <-- HERE /
Okay, one more:
Show quoted textcpan> i /\\*/
Author id = NEZUMI
EMAIL hatuka@nezumi.nu
FULLNAME Hatuka*nezumi - IKEDA Soji
This works, but I consider this to be a bug. At least the docs do not
mention it explicitly:
| Arguments to these commands are either strings exactly matching the
| identification string of an object, or regular expressions matched
| case-insensitively against various attributes of the objects. The
| parser only recognizes a regular expression when you enclose it with
| slashes.
Thanks, Frank