> I'm also super confused why the issue is occuring. You can see from the > patch below that by default the ask() function attempted to match the > user's input against the empty regex //, which should match anything: > > $ perl -e 'use strict; my $resp="something"; my $re=""; print "true\n" if $resp =~ /$re/' > true > $ perl -e 'use strict; my $resp=""; my $re=""; print "true\n" if $resp =~ /$re/' > true > > Any yet while my demonstration above works as I expect, for some reason > what is basically the same code (AFAICT) in send-email does not match. I > thought I knew my perl fairly well, but maybe some perl guru can see > what's going wrong. Ah, found it in perlreref: If 'pattern' is an empty string, the last successfully matched regex is used. Grumble. j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
