Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex

[zine-el-aabidine]

Hi

I ran retroseq.pl and i got the errors : Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 190. Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S$/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 195. Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 204. Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S$/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 209. Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S$/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 218. Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^[0-9]{2}+ <-- HERE S/ at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/../RetroSeq/Utilities.pm line 219. Useless use of private variable in void context at /home/eq_jcl/Projects/MNase_and_Sonicseq/contig_analysis_approche_2/retroseq//RetroSeq-master/bin/retroseq.pl line 184.

Do you have an idea about how to solve this problem please.

Thank you

[tk2]

Can you post the command that you ran?

[rsFalse]

perl 5.20 was effected, take a look: https://github.com/perl/perl5/issues/14857