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Laszlo Bodor updated PIG-5368: ------------------------------ Description: |In perl v5.22, using a literal { in a regular expression was deprecated, and will emit a warning if it isn't escaped: \{. In v5.26, this won't just warn, it'll cause a syntax error.| Example: [https://github.com/apache/pig/blob/e766b6bf29e610b6312f8447fc008bed6beb4090/test/e2e/pig/tests/cmdline.conf#L47] {code} $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\{abc}/' Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/World\{ <-- HERE abc}/ at -e line 1. $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\\{abc}/' {code} was: In perl v5.22, using a literal { in a regular expression was deprecated, and will emit a warning if it isn't escaped: {. In v5.26, this won't just warn, it'll cause a syntax error. Example: [https://github.com/apache/pig/blob/e766b6bf29e610b6312f8447fc008bed6beb4090/test/e2e/pig/tests/cmdline.conf#L47] {code} $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\{abc}/' Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/World\{ <-- HERE abc}/ at -e line 1. $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\\{abc}/' {code} > Braces without escaping in regexes throws error in recent perl versions > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-5368 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-5368 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Laszlo Bodor > Assignee: Laszlo Bodor > Priority: Major > > > |In perl v5.22, using a literal { in a regular expression was deprecated, and > will emit a warning if it isn't escaped: \{. In v5.26, this won't just warn, > it'll cause a syntax error.| > Example: > [https://github.com/apache/pig/blob/e766b6bf29e610b6312f8447fc008bed6beb4090/test/e2e/pig/tests/cmdline.conf#L47] > > {code} > $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\{abc}/' > Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in > m/World\{ <-- HERE abc}/ at -e line 1. > $ perl -e 'print "It matches\n" if "Hello World" =~ /World\\{abc}/' > {code} > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)