Beta 4.15-12

[Julian Field]

At 21:27 30/04/2003, you wrote:
>This is what I get on an AIX box:
>$ perl -e 'use English; printf "%vd\n",$PERL_VERSION;'
>%vd
>$ perl --version
>
>This is perl, version 5.004_03

Does the same thing on 5.005 as well :-(
So, as it stands, this feature won't work on perl pre 5.6.

>Le mer 30/04/2003 à 16:21, Mariano Absatz a écrit :
> > BTW... I'm not at all sure that this is as backward portable as Tony
> > thinks...
> >
> > can someone with access to a pre 5.6 perl tell me what does this command
> > print:
> >
> > perl -e 'use English; printf "%vd\n",$PERL_VERSION;'
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > El 30 Apr 2003 a las 16:58, Mariano Absatz escribió:
> >
> > > El 30 Apr 2003 a las 19:37, Julian Field escribió:
> > >
> > > > As so much has happened in the last 24 hours or so, here's a new beta
> > > > release. It's on the downloads page, so go to
> > > >         www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/downloads.shtml
> > > > to get it.
> > > >
> > > > I have been pretty careful on what changes have gone in, and what have
> > > > stayed out, but some testing by you folks would be much appreciated.
> > > OK, you did what Tony said, but kept a bug of mine (I had to versions 
> and
> > > sent the wrong patch last time)...
> > >
> > > As the Camel book says, $PERL_VERSION is _not_ printable, so you must 
> use
> > > sprintf("%vd",$PERL_VERSION)... this patch applies to 4.15-12 (sorry 
> for the
> > > last one):
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Mariano Absatz
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