Re: Apparent bugs in various things

Chip Salzenberg (chip@atlantic.net)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:14:51 -0500 (EST)


According to Ilya Zakharevich:
> > Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr at /usr/lib/perl/Carp.pm line 72, <DATA> chunk 161.

I think this patch should fix that particular problem:

Index: lib/Carp.pm
***************
*** 69,72 ****
--- 69,73 ----
  	      for (@a) {
  		$_ = "undef", next unless defined $_;
+ 		$_ .= '' if ref $_;
  		s/'/\\'/g;
  		substr($_,$MaxArgLen) = '...' if $MaxArgLen and $MaxArgLen < length;

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