libwww-perl / libwww-perl/HTTP-Message

decoded_content does not save regex position [rt.cpan.org #92917]

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Migrated from rt.cpan.org#92917 (status was 'open')

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  • Pascal@rkfd.com

From pascal@rockford.com on 2014-02-10 20:38:49:

There is a good tutorial at http://www.regular-expressions.info/continue.html on how regex should work.

From leonerd-cpan@leonerd.org.uk on 2015-09-09 15:29:48:

The way that 'pos' magic works on SVs makes it hard to support this on the return value of an object method.

There's a chance that something might work if it's written as an :lvalue-attributed method though.

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Start by locating the decoded_content method and reviewing how Perl's pos behavior applies to its return value. The issue names no file or test, so inspect existing tests around decoded_content before defining coverage. Done means establishing whether the regex position can be preserved and documenting or testing the resulting behavior.

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Tech stack
perl
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networking
Issue type
Bug
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