If a message can be controlled by the C<warnings> pragma, its warning
category is included with the classification letter in the description
-below.
+below. E.g. C<(W closed)> means a warning in the C<closed> category.
Optional warnings are enabled by using the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-w>
and B<-W> switches. Warnings may be captured by setting C<$SIG{__WARN__}>
(W unopened) You tried binmode() on a filehandle that was never opened.
Check your control flow and number of arguments.
-=item "\b{" is deprecated; use "\b\{" instead
+=item "\b{" is deprecated; use "\b\{" or "\b[{]" instead in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-=item "\B{" is deprecated; use "\B\{" instead
+=item "\B{" is deprecated; use "\B\{" or "\B[{]" instead in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-(W deprecated, regexp) Use of an unescaped "{" immediately following a
+(W deprecated) Use of an unescaped "{" immediately following a
C<\b> or C<\B> is now deprecated so as to reserve its use for Perl
-itself in a future release.
+itself in a future release. You can either precede the brace with a
+backslash, or enclose it in square brackets; the latter is the way to go
+if the pattern delimiters are C<{}>.
=item Bit vector size > 32 non-portable
=item Can't chdir to %s
-(F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory
+(F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but F</foo/bar> is not a directory
that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist.
=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid
(F) You used C<\p{}> or C<\P{}> but the character property by that name
could not be found. Maybe you misspelled the name of the property?
See L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through \p{} and \P{}>
-for a complete list of available properties.
+for a complete list of available official properties.
=item Can't find label %s
(F) List assignment to %ENV is not supported on some systems, notably
VMS.
+=item Can't make loaded symbols global on this platform while loading %s
+
+(W) A module passed the flag 0x01 to DynaLoader::dl_load_file() to request
+that symbols from the stated file are made available globally within the
+process, but that functionality is not available on this platform. Whilst
+the module likely will still work, this may prevent the perl interpreter
+from loading other XS-based extensions which need to link directly to
+functions defined in the C or XS code in the stated file.
+
=item Can't modify %s in %s
(F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try
=item Character following "\c" must be ASCII
(F)(W deprecated, syntax) In C<\cI<X>>, I<X> must be an ASCII character.
-It is planned to make this fatal in all instances in Perl 5.18. In the
-cases where it isn't fatal, the character this evaluates to is
+It is planned to make this fatal in all instances in Perl v5.20. In
+the cases where it isn't fatal, the character this evaluates to is
derived by exclusive or'ing the code point of this character with 0x40.
-Note that non-alphabetic ASCII characters are discouraged here as well.
+Note that non-alphabetic ASCII characters are discouraged here as well,
+and using non-printable ones will be deprecated starting in v5.18.
=item Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack
(D deprecated, syntax) The C<\cI<X>> construct is intended to be a way
to specify non-printable characters. You used it with a "{" which
evaluates to ";", which is printable. It is planned to remove the
-ability to specify a semi-colon this way in Perl 5.18. Just use a
+ability to specify a semi-colon this way in Perl 5.20. Just use a
semi-colon or a backslash-semi-colon without the "\c".
=item "\c%c" is more clearly written simply as "%s"
(F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords.
+=item Corrupted regexp opcode %d > %d
+
+(P) This is either an error in Perl, or, if you're using
+one, your L<custom regular expression engine|perlreapi>. If not the
+latter, report the problem through the L<perlbug> utility.
+
=item corrupted regexp pointers
(P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular
=item %s does not define %s::VERSION--version check failed
(F) You said something like "use Module 42" but the Module did not
-define a C<$VERSION.>
+define a C<$VERSION>.
=item '/' does not take a repeat count
named "elseif" for the class returned by the following block. This is
unlikely to be what you want.
-=item Empty %s
+=item Empty \%c{} in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) C<\p> and C<\P> are used to introduce a named Unicode property, as
described in L<perlunicode> and L<perlre>. You used C<\p> or C<\P> in
an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the
conversion routines don't handle. Drat.
+=item Escape literal pattern white space under /x
+
+(D deprecated) You compiled a regular expression pattern with C</x> to
+ignore white space, and you used, as a literal, one of the characters
+that Perl plans to eventually treat as white space. The character must
+be escaped somehow, or it will work differently on a future Perl that
+does treat it as white space. The easiest way is to insert a backslash
+immediately before it, or to enclose it with square brackets. This
+change is to bring Perl into conformance with Unicode recommendations.
+Here are the five characters that generate this warning:
+U+0085 NEXT LINE,
+U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK,
+U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK,
+U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR,
+and
+U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR.
+
=item Eval-group in insecure regular expression
(F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular
(W exiting) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional means, such
as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement.
+=item Expecting close bracket in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You wrote something like
+
+ (?13
+
+to denote a capturing group of the form
+L<C<(?I<PARNO>)>|perlre/(?PARNO) (?-PARNO) (?+PARNO) (?R) (?0)>,
+but omitted the C<")">.
+
=item Experimental "%s" subs not enabled
(F) To use lexical subs, you must first enable them:
forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See
L<perlfunc/getsockopt>.
+=item given is experimental
+
+(S experimental::smartmatch) C<given> depends on smartmatch, which
+is experimental, so its behavior may change or even be removed
+in any future release of perl. See the explanation under
+L<perlsyn/Experimental Details on given and when>.
+
=item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name
(F) You've said "use strict" or "use strict vars", which indicates
(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
+=item Illegal pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You wrote something like
+
+ (?+foo)
+
+The C<"+"> is valid only when followed by digits, indicating a
+capturing group. See
+L<C<(?I<PARNO>)>|perlre/(?PARNO) (?-PARNO) (?+PARNO) (?R) (?0)>.
+
=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: -%c
(X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the
Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could
also result in this warning. See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>.
+=item Incomplete expression within '(?[ ])' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) There was a syntax error within the C<(?[ ])>. This can happen if the
+expression inside the construct was completely empty, or if there are
+too many or few operands for the number of operators. Perl is not smart
+enough to give you a more precise indication as to what is wrong.
+
=item Inconsistent hierarchy during C3 merge of class '%s': merging failed on
parent '%s'
function, i.e. C<\p{IsFoo}> or C<\p{InFoo}>.
See L<perlunicode/User-Defined Character Properties> and L<perlsec>.
+=item In '(?...)', splitting the initial '(?' is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(D regexp, deprecated) The two-character sequence C<"(?"> in
+this context in a regular expression pattern should be an
+indivisible token, with nothing intervening between the C<"(">
+and the C<"?">, but you separated them. Due to an accident of
+implementation, this prohibition was not enforced, but we do
+plan to forbid it in a future Perl version. This message
+serves as giving you fair warning of this pending change.
+
=item Integer overflow in format string for %s
(F) The indexes and widths specified in the format string of C<printf()>
(S debugging) Perl was called with invalid debugger flags. Call perl
with the B<-D> option with no flags to see the list of acceptable values.
-See also L<perlrun/B<-D>I<letters>>.
+See also L<perlrun/-Dletters>.
=item Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
Perhaps the internals were modified directly in some way or
an arbitrary reference was blessed into the "version" class.
+=item In '(*VERB...)', splitting the initial '(*' is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(D regexp, deprecated) The two-character sequence C<"(*"> in
+this context in a regular expression pattern should be an
+indivisible token, with nothing intervening between the C<"(">
+and the C<"*">, but you separated them. Due to an accident of
+implementation, this prohibition was not enforced, but we do
+plan to forbid it in a future Perl version. This message
+serves as giving you fair warning of this pending change.
+
=item ioctl is not implemented
(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement ioctl(), which is pretty
(F) Your machine doesn't implement the sockatmark() functionality,
neither as a system call nor an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK).
-=item It is deprecated to pass malformed UTF-8 to character classification macros, for "%s"
-
-(D deprecated, utf8) This message indicates a bug either in the Perl
-core or in XS code. Such code was trying to find out if a character,
-allegedly stored internally encoded as UTF-8, was of a given type, such
-as being punctuation or a digit. But the character was not encoded in
-legal UTF-8. The C<%s> is replaced by a string that can be used by
-knowledgeable people to determine what the type being checked against
-was. If C<utf8> warnings are enabled, a further message is raised,
-giving details of the malformation.
-
=item $* is no longer supported
(D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older
=item Lexing code attempted to stuff non-Latin-1 character into Latin-1 input
-(F) An extension is attempting to insert text into the current parse
-(using L<lex_stuff_pvn|perlapi/lex_stuff_pvn> or similar), but tried to insert a character that
-couldn't be part of the current input. This is an inherent pitfall
-of the stuffing mechanism, and one of the reasons to avoid it. Where
+(F) An extension is attempting to insert text into the current parse (using
+L<lex_stuff_pvn|perlapi/lex_stuff_pvn> or similar), but tried to insert a
+character that couldn't be part of the current input. This is an inherent
+pitfall of the stuffing mechanism, and one of the reasons to avoid it. Where
it is necessary to stuff, stuffing only plain ASCII is recommended.
=item Lexing code internal error (%s)
/\N {SPACE}/x; # Wrong!
/\N{SPACE}/x; # ok
+=item Need exactly 3 octal digits in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) Within S<C<(?[ ])>>, all constants interpreted as octal need to be
+exactly 3 digits long. This helps catch some ambiguities. If your
+constant is too short, add leading zeros, like
+
+ (?[ [ \078 ] ]) # Syntax error!
+ (?[ [ \0078 ] ]) # Works
+ (?[ [ \007 8 ] ]) # Clearer
+
+The maximum number this construct can express is C<\777>. If you
+need a larger one, you need to use L<\o{}|perlrebackslash/Octal escapes> instead. If you meant
+two separate things, you need to separate them:
+
+ (?[ [ \7776 ] ]) # Syntax error!
+ (?[ [ \o{7776} ] ]) # One meaning
+ (?[ [ \777 6 ] ]) # Another meaning
+ (?[ [ \777 \006 ] ]) # Still another
+
=item Negative '/' count in unpack
(F) The length count obtained from a length/code unpack operation was
it throwing an exception, use C<maybe::next::method>
or C<next::can>. See L<mro>.
+=item Non-hex character in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) In a regular expression, there was a non-hexadecimal character where
+a hex one was expected, like
+
+ (?[ [ \xDG ] ])
+ (?[ [ \x{DEKA} ] ])
+
+=item Non-octal character in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) In a regular expression, there was a non-octal character where
+an octal one was expected, like
+
+ (?[ [ \o{1278} ] ])
+
+=item Non-octal character '%c'. Resolved as "%s"
+
+(W digit) In parsing an octal numeric constant, a character was
+unexpectedly encountered that isn't octal. The resulting value
+is as indicated.
+
=item "no" not allowed in expression
(F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and
returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>.
+=item Non-string passed as bitmask
+
+(W misc) A number has been passed as a bitmask argument to select().
+Use the vec() function to construct the file descriptor bitmasks for
+select. See L<perlfunc/select>.
+
=item No output file after > on command line
(F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line
of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
yourself.
+=item (?[...]) not valid in locale in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) C<(?[...])> cannot be used within the scope of a C<S<use locale>> or with
+an C</l> regular expression modifier, as that would require deferring
+to run-time the calculation of what it should evaluate to, and it is
+regex compile-time only.
+
=item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC
(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl was unable to find the local
F<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL> to translate to the number of seconds which
need to be added to UTC to get local time.
-=item Non-octal character '%c'. Resolved as "%s"
-
-(W digit) In parsing an octal numeric constant, a character was
-unexpectedly encountered that isn't octal. The resulting value
-is as indicated.
-
-=item Non-string passed as bitmask
-
-(W misc) A number has been passed as a bitmask argument to select().
-Use the vec() function to construct the file descriptor bitmasks for
-select. See L<perlfunc/select>.
-
=item Null filename used
(F) You can't require the null filename, especially because on many
(W unopened) You tried to invoke a file test operator on a filehandle
that isn't open. Check your control flow. See also L<perlfunc/-X>.
+=item Strings with code points over 0xFF may not be mapped into in-memory file handles
+
+(W utf8) You tried to open a reference to a scalar for read or append
+where the scalar contained code points over 0xFF. In-memory files
+model on-disk files and can only contain bytes.
+
=item oops: oopsAV
(S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up.
Although legal, this idiom might render your code confusing
and is deprecated.
+=item Operand with no preceding operator in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You wrote something like
+
+ (?[ \p{Digit} \p{Thai} ])
+
+There are two operands, but no operator giving how you want to combine
+them.
+
=item Operation "%s": no method found, %s
(F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no
(P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier.
+=item Parentheses missing around "%s" list
+
+(W parenthesis) You said something like
+
+ my $foo, $bar = @_;
+
+when you meant
+
+ my ($foo, $bar) = @_;
+
+Remember that "my", "our", "local" and "state" bind tighter than comma.
+
=item Parsing code internal error (%s)
(F) Parsing code supplied by an extension violated the parser's API in
a detectable way.
+=item Passing malformed UTF-8 to "%s" is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated, utf8) This message indicates a bug either in the Perl
+core or in XS code. Such code was trying to find out if a character,
+allegedly stored internally encoded as UTF-8, was of a given type, such
+as being punctuation or a digit. But the character was not encoded in
+legal UTF-8. The C<%s> is replaced by a string that can be used by
+knowledgeable people to determine what the type being checked against
+was. If C<utf8> warnings are enabled, a further message is raised,
+giving details of the malformation.
+
=item Pattern subroutine nesting without pos change exceeded limit in regex;
marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
The <-- HERE shows whereabouts in the regular expression the problem was
discovered.
-=item Parentheses missing around "%s" list
-
-(W parenthesis) You said something like
-
- my $foo, $bar = @_;
-
-when you meant
-
- my ($foo, $bar) = @_;
-
-Remember that "my", "our", "local" and "state" bind tighter than comma.
-
=item C<-p> destination: %s
(F) An error occurred during the implicit output invoked by the C<-p>
=item Perl folding rules are not up-to-date for 0x%X; please use the perlbug
utility to report; in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-(W regexp, deprecated) You used a regular expression with
+(D regexp, deprecated) You used a regular expression with
case-insensitive matching, and there is a bug in Perl in which the
-built-in regular expression folding rules are not accurate. This may
-lead to incorrect results. Please report this as a bug using the
-"perlbug" utility. (This message is marked deprecated, so that it by
+built-in regular expression folding rules are not accurate. This
+may lead to incorrect results. Please report this as a bug using the
+L<perlbug> utility. (This message is marked deprecated, so that it by
default will be turned-on.)
=item Perl_my_%s() not available
Maybe the code needs to be updated, or maybe it is simply
wrong and the version check should just be removed.
+=item perl: warning: Non hex character in '$ENV{PERL_HASH_SEED}', seed only partially set
+
+(W) PERL_HASH_SEED should match /^\s*(?:0x)?[0-9a-fA-F]+\s*\z/ but it
+contained a non hex character. This could mean you are not using the
+hash seed you think you are.
+
=item perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
(S) The whole warning message will look something like:
time you run Perl. How to really fix the problem can be found in
L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>.
-=item perl: warning: Non hex character in '$ENV{PERL_HASH_SEED}', seed only
-partially set
+=item perl: warning: strange setting in '$ENV{PERL_PERTURB_KEYS}': '%s'
-(W) PERL_HASH_SEED should match /^\s*(?:0x)?[0-9a-fA-F]+\s*\z/ but it
-contained a non hex character. This could mean your hash randomization
-is not being set correctly.
+(W) Perl was run with the environment variable PERL_PERTURB_KEYS defined
+but containing an unexpected value. The legal values of this setting
+are as follows.
+
+ Numeric | String | Result
+ --------+---------------+-----------------------------------------
+ 0 | NO | Disables key traversal randomization
+ 1 | RANDOM | Enables full key traversal randomization
+ 2 | DETERMINISTIC | Enables repeatable key traversal randomization
+
+Both numeric and string values are accepted, but note that string values are
+case sensitive. The default for this setting is "RANDOM" or 1.
=item pid %x not a child
L<perlipc/"Signals">. See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT"
in L<perlos2>.
+=item Property '%s' is unknown in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) The named property which you specified via C<\p> or C<\P> is not one
+known to Perl. Perhaps you misspelled the name? See
+L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through \p{} and \P{}>
+for a complete list of available official
+properties. If it is a L<user-defined property|perlunicode/User-Defined Character Properties>
+it must have been defined by the time the regular expression is
+compiled.
+
=item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s
(W illegalproto) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is
the {min,max} construct. The <-- HERE shows whereabouts in the regular
expression the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.
+=item Quantifier {n,m} with n > m can't match in regex
+
+=item Quantifier {n,m} with n > m can't match in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(W regexp) Minima should be less than or equal to maxima. If you really
+want your regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}.
+
=item Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression in regex; marked by <--
HERE in m/%s/
The <-- HERE shows whereabouts in the regular expression the problem was
discovered.
-=item Quantifier {n,m} with n > m can't match in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-
-(W regexp) Minima should be less than or equal to maxima. If you really
-want your regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}.
-
=item Range iterator outside integer range
(F) One (or both) of the numeric arguments to the range operator ".."
(F) The end of the perl code contained within the {...} must be
followed immediately by a ')'.
-=item Z<>500 Server error
-
-See Server error.
-
-=item Server error
+=item Server error (a.k.a. "500 Server error")
(A) This is the error message generally seen in a browser window
when trying to run a CGI program (including SSI) over the web. The
=item Smart matching a non-overloaded object breaks encapsulation
(F) You should not use the C<~~> operator on an object that does not
-overload it: Perl refuses to use the object's underlying structure for
-the smart match.
+overload it: Perl refuses to use the object's underlying structure
+for the smart match.
+
+=item Smartmatch is experimental
+
+(S experimental::smartmatch) This warning is emitted if you
+use the smartmatch (C<~~>) operator. This is currently an experimental
+feature, and its details are subject to change in future releases of
+Perl. Particularly, its current behavior is noticed for being
+unnecessarily complex and unintuitive, and is very likely to be
+overhauled.
=item sort is now a reserved word
a perl4 interpreter, especially if the next 2 tokens are "use strict"
or "my $var" or "our $var".
+=item Syntax error in (?[...]) in regex m/%s/
+
+(F) Perl could not figure out what you meant inside this construct; this
+notifies you that it is giving up trying.
+
=item sysread() on closed filehandle %s
(W closed) You tried to read from a closed filehandle.
will continue to pretend that it is. And if you quote me on that, I
will deny it.
+=item The %s feature is experimental
+
+(S experimental) This warning is emitted if you enable an experimental
+feature via C<use feature>. Simply suppress the warning if you want
+to use the feature, but know that in doing so you are taking the risk
+of using an experimental feature which may change or be removed in a
+future Perl version:
+
+ no warnings "experimental::lexical_subs";
+ use feature "lexical_subs";
+
+=item The %s function is unimplemented
+
+(F) The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture,
+according to the probings of Configure.
+
=item The lexical_subs feature is experimental
(S experimental::lexical_subs) This warning is emitted if you
use feature "lexical_subs";
my sub foo { ... }
-=item The %s function is unimplemented
+=item The regex_sets feature is experimental
+
+(S experimental::regex_sets) This warning is emitted if you
+use the syntax S<C<(?[ ])>> in a regular expression.
+The details of this feature are subject to change.
+if you want to use it, but know that in doing so you
+are taking the risk of using an experimental feature which may
+change in a future Perl version, you can do this to silence the
+warning:
-(F) The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according
-to the probings of Configure.
+ no warnings "experimental::regex_sets";
=item The stat preceding %s wasn't an lstat
target of the change to
%ENV which produced the warning.
+=item This Perl has not been built with support for randomized hash key traversal but something called Perl_hv_rand_set().
+
+(F) Something has attempted to use an internal API call which
+depends on Perl being compiled with the default support for randomized hash
+key traversal, but this Perl has been compiled without it. You should
+report this warning to the relevant upstream party, or recompile perl
+with default options.
+
=item thread failed to start: %s
(W threads)(S) The entry point function of threads->create() failed for some reason.
(A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl.
Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself.
-=item Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex;
-marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-
-(D deprecated, regexp) You used a literal C<"{"> character in a regular
-expression pattern. You should change to use C<"\{"> instead, because a future
-version of Perl (tentatively v5.20) will consider this to be a syntax error. If
-the pattern delimiters are also braces, any matching right brace
-(C<"}">) should also be escaped to avoid confusing the parser, for
-example,
-
- qr{abc\{def\}ghi}
-
=item unexec of %s into %s failed!
(F) The unexec() routine failed for some reason. See your local FSF
representative, who probably put it there in the first place.
+=item Unexpected binary operator '%c' with no preceding operand in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ | \p{Digit} ])
+
+where the C<"|"> is a binary operator with an operand on the right, but
+no operand on the left.
+
+=item Unexpected character in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ z ])
+
+Within C<(?[ ])>, no literal characters are allowed unless they are
+within an inner pair of square brackets, like
+
+ (?[ [ z ] ])
+
+Another possibility is that you forgot a backslash. Perl isn't smart
+enough to figure out what you really meant.
+
=item Unexpected constant lvalue entersub entry via type/targ %d:%d
(P) When compiling a subroutine call in lvalue context, Perl failed an
internal consistency check. It encountered a malformed op tree.
+=item Unexpected ')' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ ( \p{Digit} + ) ])
+
+The C<")"> is out-of-place. Something apparently was supposed to
+be combined with the digits, or the C<"+"> shouldn't be there, or
+something like that. Perl can't figure out what was intended.
+
+=item Unexpected '(' with no preceding operator in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ \p{Digit} ( \p{Lao} + \p{Thai} ) ])
+
+There should be an operator before the C<"(">, as there's
+no indication as to how the digits are to be combined
+with the characters in the Lao and Thai scripts.
+
=item Unicode non-character U+%X is illegal for open interchange
(S utf8, nonchar) Certain codepoints, such as U+FFFE and U+FFFF, are
came from. If you really really know what you are doing you can turn
off this warning by C<no warnings 'surrogate';>.
-=item Unknown BYTEORDER
-
-(F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte
-order.
-
=item Unknown charname '%s'
(F) The name you used inside C<\N{}> is unknown to Perl. Check the
module (e.g. C<use warnings 'File::Find'>), you must have loaded this
module first.
+=item Unmatched '[' in POSIX class in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ [:digit: ])
+
+That should be written:
+
+ (?[ [:digit:] ])
+
+=item Unmatched '%c' in POSIX class in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You had something like this:
+
+ (?[ [:alnum] ])
+
+There should be a second C<":">, like this:
+
+ (?[ [:alnum:] ])
+
=item Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) The brackets around a character class must match. If you wish to
in your Perl script (or eval) near the specified column. Perhaps you tried
to run a compressed script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
+=item Unrecognized escape \%c in character class in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) You used a backslash-character combination which is not
+recognized by Perl inside character classes. This is a fatal
+error when the character class is used within C<(?[ ])>.
+
=item Unrecognized escape \%c in character class passed through in regex;
marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
<<"foo"
+=item Unterminated \g... pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
=item Unterminated \g{...} pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
-(F) You missed a close brace on a \g{..} pattern (group reference) in
-a regular expression. Fix the pattern and retry.
+(F) In a regular expression, you had a C<\g> that wasn't followed by a
+proper group reference. In the case of C<\g{>, the closing brace is
+missing; otherwise the C<\g> must be followed by an integer. Fix the
+pattern and retry.
=item Unterminated <> operator
same length as the replacelist. See L<perlop> for more information
about the /d modifier.
+=item Useless use of '\'; doesn't escape metacharacter '%c'
+
+(D deprecated) You wrote a regular expression pattern something like
+one of these:
+
+ m{ \x\{FF\} }x
+ m{foo\{1,3\}}
+ qr(foo\(bar\))
+ s[foo\[a-z\]bar][baz]
+
+The interior braces, square brackets, and parentheses are treated as
+metacharacters even though they are backslashed; instead write:
+
+ m{ \x{FF} }x
+ m{foo{1,3}}
+ qr(foo(bar))
+ s[foo[a-z]bar][baz]
+
+The backslashes have no effect when a regular expression pattern is
+delimited by C<{}>, C<[]>, or C<()>, which ordinarily are
+metacharacters, and the delimiters are also used, paired, within the
+interior of the pattern. It is planned that a future Perl release will
+change the meaning of constructs like these so that the backslashes
+will have an effect, so remove them from your code.
+
=item Useless use of \E
(W misc) You have a \E in a double-quotish string without a C<\U>,
String constants that would normally evaluate to 0 or 1 are warned
about.
+=item Useless use of (?-p) in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(W regexp) The C<p> modifier cannot be turned off once set. Trying to do
+so is futile.
+
=item Useless use of "re" pragma
(W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments. That isn't very useful.
use the /g modifier. Currently, /c is meaningful only when /g is
used. (This may change in the future.)
+=item Use of each() on hash after insertion without resetting hash iterator results in undefined behavior
+
+(S internal) The behavior of C<each()> after insertion is undefined; it may
+skip items, or visit items more than once. Consider using C<keys()> instead
+of C<each()>.
+
=item Use of := for an empty attribute list is not allowed
(F) The construction C<my $x := 42> used to parse as equivalent to
it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for.
The operation returned C<undef>. Use a filename instead.
-=item Use of my $_ is deprecated
+=item Use of my $_ is experimental
-(D deprecated) Lexical $_ is deprecated because of
-its confusing side-effects. Consider using C<local $_>
-instead. See the explanation under L<perlvar/$_>.
+(S experimental::lexical_topic) Lexical $_ is an experimental feature and
+its behavior may change or even be removed in any future release of perl.
+See the explanation under L<perlvar/$_>.
=item Use of %s on a handle without * is deprecated
however, because you can overload the numification and stringification
operators and then you presumably know what you are doing.
-=item Use of state $_ is deprecated
+=item Use of state $_ is experimental
-(D deprecated) Lexical $_ is deprecated because of
-its confusing side-effects. Consider using C<local $_>
-instead. See the explanation under L<perlvar/$_>.
+(S experimental::lexical_topic) Lexical $_ is an experimental feature and
+its behavior may change or even be removed in any future release of perl.
+See the explanation under L<perlvar/$_>.
=item Use of tainted arguments in %s is deprecated
the name of the variable (if any) that was undefined. In some cases
it cannot do this, so it also tells you what operation you used the
undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program
-anid the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear
+and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear
literally in your program. For example, C<"that $foo"> is usually
optimized into C<"that " . $foo>, and the warning will refer to the
C<concatenation (.)> operator, even though there is no C<.> in
your program.
+=item Use \x{...} for more than two hex characters in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
+
+(F) In a regular expression, you said something like
+
+ (?[ [ \xBEEF ] ])
+
+Perl isn't sure if you meant this
+
+ (?[ [ \x{BEEF} ] ])
+
+or if you meant this
+
+ (?[ [ \x{BE} E F ] ])
+
+You need to add either braces or blanks to disambiguate.
+
=item Using a hash as a reference is deprecated
(D deprecated) You tried to use a hash as a reference, as in
So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
+=item when is experimental
+
+(S experimental::smartmatch) C<when> depends on smartmatch, which is
+experimental. Additionally, it has several special cases that may
+not be immediately obvious, and their behavior may change or
+even be removed in any future release of perl. See the explanation
+under L<perlsyn/Experimental Details on given and when>.
+
=item Wide character in %s
(S utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
=item %s "\x%X" does not map to Unicode
-(F) When reading in different encodings Perl tries to map everything
-into Unicode characters. The bytes you read in are not legal in
-this encoding, for example
+(F) When reading in different encodings, Perl tries to map
+everything into Unicode characters. The bytes you read in
+are not legal in this encoding. For example
utf8 "\xE4" does not map to Unicode
=item Your random numbers are not that random
-(F) When trying to initialise the random seed for hashes, Perl could
+(F) When trying to initialize the random seed for hashes, Perl could
not get any randomness out of your system. This usually indicates
Something Very Wrong.