On 11:43 12 Mar 2003, Telford <telford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > From: Norman Gaywood <norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > But I could not find any input that gave the split loop error message.
| > The error message is mentioned in man perldiag but it just points you
| > to the perldoc -f split page. And as you said, this says nothing about
| > this error.
[...]
| My default LANG setting is "en_AU.UTF-8" by the way.
|
| So something to do with utf8 is breaking things... I still don't
| understand why because all the input characters are low ASCII and should
| be perfectly compatible between utf8 and ASCII. Unfortunately the
| default RedHat install will choose en_AU.utf8 instead of en_AU as the
| standard language for Australia but now that I know what I'm doing at
| least I know how to fix things for myself.
Yeah. Man perldiag says:
Split loop
(P) The split was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a
split shouldn't iterate more times than there are
characters of input, which is what happened.) See the
split entry in the perlfunc manpage.
A quick grep through the source shows this:
[perl/perl-5.6.1]zapff*> rg "split loop"
./pod/perldiag.pod:3060:=item Split loop
./pp.c:5307: DIE(aTHX_ "Split loop");
which is a piece of code in pp.c that says:
iters = (SP - PL_stack_base) - base;
if (iters > maxiters)
DIE(aTHX_ "Split loop");
which is a debug statement that should never fire. So a bug report should be
filed with the "perlbug" command.
For what it's worth, I have this:
LC_CTYPE=C
LC_COLLATE=C
in my environment specificly to avoid some UTF-8isms. Not because I
hate UTF-* - I _like_ UTF-8 and think it's the Right Thing. But some
apps aren't ready for it yet.
Cheers,
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