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| -rw-r--r-- | src/LexPerl.cxx | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/LexPerl.cxx b/src/LexPerl.cxx index acc8aba13..67d60fc1a 100644 --- a/src/LexPerl.cxx +++ b/src/LexPerl.cxx @@ -482,9 +482,13 @@ static void ColourisePerlDoc(unsigned int startPos, int length, int initStyle, break; } } - } else {// bare identifier, usually a function - // call but perl also uses this for - // pseudo-constants (really ambiguous...) + } else {// bare identifier, usually a function call but Perl + // optimizes them as pseudo-constants, then the next + // '/' will be a divide; favour divide over regex + // if there is a whitespace after the '/' + if (isspacechar(chNext)) { + preferRE = false; + } break; } bk--; @@ -974,3 +978,4 @@ static const char * const perlWordListDesc[] = { }; LexerModule lmPerl(SCLEX_PERL, ColourisePerlDoc, "perl", FoldPerlDoc, perlWordListDesc); + |