On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 07:49:14PM +0100, Olof Johansson wrote: > On 2011-11-16 11:57 -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > No, you are wrong. s/0*// is sufficient, because /0*/ will always match at > > the start of the string anyway. > > You're clearly an expert. I yield. Can you open a bug report with perl > and getting this fixed?
It's working as expected for me, so I'm not sure what needs to be fixed. % cat tmp.pl #!perl -l print"$_: ",($_=unpack"B*",pack"N",$_)=~s/0*//?$_:$_ for@_=@ARGV; print"$_: ",($_=unpack"B*",pack"N",$_)=~s/^0*//?$_:$_ for@_=@ARGV; % perl tmp.pl 2147483648 3000000000 2147483648: 10000000000000000000000000000000 3000000000: 10110010110100000101111000000000 2147483648: 10000000000000000000000000000000 3000000000: 10110010110100000101111000000000 % Are you seeing different behavior? Ronald
