Re^4: Text::ExtractWords exhibits incomprehensible behavior?

[ibm1620]

That must be it.

v5.40.0
Text: 12/21/84 Bob's 21st b'day was a wine-and-dine.
Copy: 12/21/84 Bob's 21st b'day was a wine-and-dine.
SV = PV(0x15780b090) at 0x1578242d0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
  PV = 0x6000019a1fe0 "12/21/84 Bob's 21st b'day was a wine-and-dine."
+\0
  CUR = 46
  LEN = 48
  COW_REFCNT = 2
SV = PV(0x15780b0b0) at 0x157824258
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
  PV = 0x6000019a1fe0 "12/21/84 Bob's 21st b'day was a wine-and-dine."
+\0
  CUR = 46
  LEN = 48
  COW_REFCNT = 2
Found words: [12] [21] [84] [bob's] [21st] [b'day] [was] [a] [wine-and
+-dine]
Text: 122184bob's21stb'daywasawine-and-dine
Copy: 122184bob's21stb'daywasawine-and-dine
SV = PV(0x15780b090) at 0x1578242d0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
  PV = 0x6000019a1fe0 "12\x0021\x0084\x00bob's\x0021st\x00b'day\x00was
+\x00a\x00wine-and-dine\x00"\0
  CUR = 46
  LEN = 48
  COW_REFCNT = 2
SV = PV(0x15780b0b0) at 0x157824258
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,IsCOW,pPOK)
  PV = 0x6000019a1fe0 "12\x0021\x0084\x00bob's\x0021st\x00b'day\x00was
+\x00a\x00wine-and-dine\x00"\0
  CUR = 46
  LEN = 48
  COW_REFCNT = 2

[etj]

I'd suggest filing a bug with the module with your nice short testcase, since it's clearly not supposed to do that.

[ibm1620]

I found a README that requested bug reports be sent as emails to the author. Have done so, including a link to this thread.