Item7797: TWiki with current Perl: Escape left braces in regular expressions (core)

In Perl 5.24, left braces { in regular expressions should be escaped as \{ to distinguish them clearly from the match count {n,m}, otherwise a warning will be printed during compilation. In TWikis without persistent Perl interpreter this floods the error logs. A fix should be available before Linux distributions start shipping Perl 5.24.

This is the item for the core components.

See TWiki:Codev.TWikiWithCurrentPerl for details.

-- TWiki:Main/HaraldJoerg - 2017-04-07

Ouch - in Rev. 30374 I inadvertedly committed a fix to the unescaped left braces in all of trunk. So, right now, all occurences which can be detected by (1) compiling or (2) running TWikiSuite.pm should be done.

-- TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg - 2017-08-17

As of now, both the compilation check and the unit test suite are clear of warnings, up to Perl 5.26 and including the next Perl development version (5.27.5 right now). Therefore, I consider this done.

-- TWiki:Main.HaraldJoerg - 2017-11-03

Attempting to move my wiki ( installed Nov 29 2015 using TWiki-6.0.2.tgz ) to a new box with perl5 (revision 5 version 26 subversion 2) - I get Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here. How best to fix it?

-- TWiki:Main.GondaEnnis - 2018-06-12

For those who come after me ............Found the patch

http://twiki.org/p/pub/Support/SID-02327/twiki-6.0.2-escape-left-braces-in-regex.patch

http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/HowToApplyPatch

-- TWiki:Main.GondaEnnis - 2018-06-12

Above patch did not patch plugins etc so I installed another lower version of perl. I saw no other fast way to get up and running.

-- TWiki:Main.GondaEnnis - 2018-06-12