diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
index ab3c00452..cadf4ba36 100644
--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 Version 1.3.39 (in progress)
 ============================
 
+2009-02-04: talby
+            [Perl] Fix SF#2564192 reported by David Kolovratnk.
+            SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize() now handles "get" magic.
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/perl5/char_strings_runme.pl b/Examples/test-suite/perl5/char_strings_runme.pl
index 51c227bb9..c4573737e 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/perl5/char_strings_runme.pl
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/perl5/char_strings_runme.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use Test::More tests => 4;
+use Test::More tests => 5;
 BEGIN { use_ok('char_strings') }
 require_ok('char_strings');
 
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ is(char_strings::CharPingPong($val1), "100", 'cstr1');
 my $val2 = "greetings";
 is(char_strings::CharPingPong($val2), "greetings", 'cstr2');
 
+# SF#2564192
+"this is a test" =~ /(\w+)$/;
+is(char_strings::CharPingPong($1), "test", "handles Magical");
diff --git a/Lib/perl5/perlstrings.swg b/Lib/perl5/perlstrings.swg
index 2083f0bba..242a9c967 100644
--- a/Lib/perl5/perlstrings.swg
+++ b/Lib/perl5/perlstrings.swg
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 SWIGINTERN int
 SWIG_AsCharPtrAndSize(SV *obj, char** cptr, size_t* psize, int *alloc)
 {
+  if (SvMAGICAL(obj)) {
+     SV *tmp = sv_newmortal();
+     SvSetSV(tmp, obj);
+     obj = tmp;
+  }
   if (SvPOK(obj)) {
     STRLEN len = 0;
     char *cstr = SvPV(obj, len);