Re: [htmltmpl] Parsing bug under Perl 5.6.1, and a fix

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Josh Clark wrote:

> Here's a strange bug that I encountered while running HTML::Template 2.8 
> under Perl 5.006001 (doesn't happen in the various flavors of 5.8 that I've 
> tried).

Sounds like a good reason to upgrade.

> The problem appears to be related to the uc function in line 1969:
>
>    $which = uc($1); # which tag is it
>
> Doing something with $1 (e.g. printing it or assigning it to a variable) 
> before calling the uc function fixes the problem.
>
>    $which = $1;
>    $which = uc($1); # which tag is it

I've seen this kind of Perl bug before in 5.6.x Perls when dealing
with UTF-8 data.  Are you intentionally doing UTF-8 work with Perl
5.6?  If not maybe you can force the data to be treated as plain
ascii, perhaps by playing with your LC_LANG setting.

-sam