Syntax change in 5.12

[Roland Mösl]

Beyond the GUI problem and to find a
replacement for Win32::Shell::Execute,
I had an error message:

my $mask = $word;
$mask =~ y/0123456789/----------/;

The line with the regular expression
worked well in V5 built 522 from 1999.

Where is the problem?

 

[D. Stussy]

Beyond the GUI problem and to find a
replacement for Win32::Shell::Execute,
I had an error message:

my $mask = $word;
$mask =~ y/0123456789/----------/;

The line with the regular expression
worked well in V5 built 522 from 1999.

Where is the problem?

Your code, probably.

With Perl 5.12.0, it appears that certain constructs were tightened up to
be more strict. Code that ran without wanrings under 5.10 and earlier now
issue warnings.

 

[Dr.Ruud]

I had an error message:

my $mask = $word;
$mask =~ y/0123456789/----------/;

The line with the regular expression
worked well in V5 built 522 from 1999.

Where is the problem?

The first problems are that you don't mention the message,
and that you misspell transliteration.

Just shorten the series of hypens to a single one.

perl -MO=Deparse -we'
my $mask;
$mask =~ y/0123456789/----/;
'