[Templates] segmentation fault

[David Dyer-Bennet]

"Mark D. Anderson" <mda@discerning.com> writes:

> I've run into this in perl 5.6 (not perl 5.8) before as well.
> It typically seems to happen when $1 is bound in a lexical context
> where it is already bound.
> I've had to work around by doing things like:
>    my ($fname) = ($aif->{fpath} =~ /\/encyclopedia\/(.*)\/index\.html$/ );
>    if ($fname) {
>              print "foo $fname";

That appears to work, at least in the test case.  But I don't have the
slightest understanding of *how* it works!  How does $fname end up
bound to the paren contents?  Is this in the perldoc anywhere?

Is perl 5.8 a reasonably safe upgrade from 5.6?
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