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authorhttp://yag.myopenid.com/ <http://yag.myopenid.com/@web>2008-10-09 18:50:04 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-10-09 18:50:04 -0400
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@@ -9,3 +9,12 @@ In my wiki, the page "realname" shows up as an orphan although it's being linked
> reason to use other link mechanisms provided by eg, markdown for internal
> links in the wiki (indeed, using them is likely to cause broken links
> when doing things like inlining or renaming pages). --[[Joey]]
+
+
+The orphans plugin fails with an error when it has to deal with a page that contains '+' characters as part of the filename. Apparently the code uses regular expressions and forgets to quote that string at some cruicial point. The error message I see is:
+
+ \[[!orphans Error: Nested quantifiers in regex;
+ marked by <-- HERE in m/^(c++ <-- HERE |)$/ at
+ /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IkiWiki/Plugin/orphans.pm line 43.]]
+
+--Peter