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-F and literal whitespace in the pattern #16183

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p5pRT opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 1 comment
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-F and literal whitespace in the pattern #16183

p5pRT opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 1 comment

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p5pRT commented Oct 4, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#132218 (status was 'new')

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p5pRT commented Oct 4, 2017

From @epa

Created by @epa

The documentation for -F in perlrun has the enigmatic note

  You can't use literal whitespace in the pattern.

But what does this mean? A literal space seems to be equivalent to empty string​:

% echo 'hello bob' | perl '-F ' -anE 'say $F[1]'
e

But a literal tab character (shown as T in the code below) gives a weird error​:

% echo 'hello bob' | perl '-FT' 'say $F[1]'
Unrecognized switch​: - (-h will show valid options).

This bug report is for two suggestions. First, the argument parsing
could be less befuddled by the tab character following -F. It should
at least identify that the tab is -F's argument (by contrast '-ET'
works okay).

Second, since currently literal whitespace is not allowed in the
pattern, that means its behaviour can change without breaking
backwards compatibility. If the pattern isn't delimited by any of //
"" or '' then could it be taken as the literal delimiter, even if it
does contain literal whitespace?

Alternatively, if the pattern contains literal whitespace this could
be an error (or at least a warning), since it's not supposed to be
allowed.

Perl Info

Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl 5.22.2:

Configured by Red Hat, Inc. at Fri Nov  4 14:35:02 UTC 2016.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=4.7.9-200.fc24.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux buildvm-12.phx2.fedoraproject.org 4.7.9-200.fc24.x86_64 #1 smp thu oct 20 14:26:16 utc 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=none -Dccflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches  -m64 -mtune=generic -Dldflags=-Wl,-z,relro  -Dccdlflags=-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-z,relro  -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-z,relro  -Dshrpdir=/usr/lib64 -DDEBUGGING=-g -Dversion=5.22.2 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl5 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5 -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dusedtrace=/usr/bin/dtrace -Duselargefiles -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dusesitecustomize'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='  -g',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='5.3.1 20160406 (Red Hat 5.3.1-6)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags ='-Wl,-z,relro  -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib
    libs=-lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat
    perllibs=-lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.22.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.22'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-z,relro '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -Wl,-z,relro  -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'

Locally applied patches:
    Fedora Patch1: Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific
    Fedora Patch3: support for libdir64
    Fedora Patch4: use libresolv instead of libbind
    Fedora Patch5: USE_MM_LD_RUN_PATH
    Fedora Patch6: Skip hostname tests, due to builders not being network capable
    Fedora Patch7: Dont run one io test due to random builder failures
    Fedora Patch15: Define SONAME for libperl.so
    Fedora Patch16: Install libperl.so to -Dshrpdir value
    Fedora Patch22: Document Math::BigInt::CalcEmu requires Math::BigInt (CPAN RT#85015)
    Fedora Patch26: Make *DBM_File desctructors thread-safe (RT#61912)
    Fedora Patch27: Make PadlistNAMES() lvalue again (CPAN RT#101063)
    Fedora Patch28: Make magic vtable writable as a work-around for Coro (CPAN RT#101063)
    Fedora Patch29: Fix duplicating PerlIO::encoding when spawning threads (RT#31923)
    Fedora Patch30: Do not let XSLoader load relative paths (CVE-2016-6185)
    Fedora Patch31: Avoid loading optional modules from default . (CVE-2016-1238)
    Fedora Patch32: Fix a crash in lexical scope warnings (RT#128597)
    Fedora Patch33: Do not mangle errno from failed socket calls (RT#128316)
    Fedora Patch34: Fix crash in "evalbytes S" (RT#129196)
    Fedora Patch35: Fix crash in "evalbytes S" (RT#129196)
    Fedora Patch36: Fix crash in "evalbytes S" (RT#129196)
    Fedora Patch37: Fix crash in splice (RT#129164, RT#129166, RT#129167)
    Fedora Patch38: Fix string overrun in Perl_gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags (RT#129267)
    Fedora Patch39: Fix string overrun in Perl_gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags (RT#129267)
    Fedora Patch40: Fix string overrun in Perl_gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags (RT#129267)
    Fedora Patch41: Fix string overrun in Perl_gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags (RT#129267)
    Fedora Patch42: Fix string overrun in Perl_gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags (RT#129267)
    Fedora Patch43: Fix crash when matching UTF-8 string with non-UTF-8 substrings (RT#129350)
    Fedora Patch44: Fix parsing perl options in shell bang line (RT#129336)
    Fedora Patch45: Fix firstchar bitmap under UTF-8 with prefix optimization (RT#129950)
    Fedora Patch46: Avoid infinite loop in h2xs tool if enum and type have the same name (RT130001)
    Fedora Patch47: Fix stack handling when calling chdir without an argument (RT#129130)
    Fedora Patch200: Link XS modules to libperl.so with EU::CBuilder on Linux
    Fedora Patch201: Link XS modules to libperl.so with EU::MM on Linux


@INC for perl 5.22.2:
    /home/eda/lib64/perl5/
    /usr/local/lib64/perl5
    /usr/local/share/perl5
    /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib64/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5


Environment for perl 5.22.2:
    HOME=/home/eda
    LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_COLLATE=C
    LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_NUMERIC=en_GB.UTF-8
    LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/eda/bin:/home/eda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/eda/.local/bin:/home/eda/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
    PERL5LIB=/home/eda/lib64/perl5/
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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