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Package: perl
Version: 5.8.4-2.3
Severity: normal
When I introduced a switch statement into my code, it gave me a syntax
error for what should be valid syntax:
syntax error at ./rccontrol.pl line 67, near ") {"
Execution of ./rccontrol.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
And when I tried using "use Switch;" it gives an odd error:
syntax error at ./rccontrol.pl line 161, near "}continue"
Execution of ./rccontrol.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
That error appears even though the word continue doesn't appear anywhere
in my code, and the switch statement that should be the only part of the
program modified is on lines 68-82.
I will try to attach the code to this bug.
Bill
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-17 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii perl-base 5.8.4-2.3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii perl-modules 5.8.4-2.3 Core Perl modules
-- no debconf information
rccontrol.pl
Description: Perl program
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:28:01PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:34:03AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:39:29PM -0400, Bill Denney wrote:
>
> > >And when I tried using "use Switch;" it gives an odd error:
> > >
> > >syntax error at ./rccontrol.pl line 161, near "}continue"
> > >Execution of ./rccontrol.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
>
> > Why your particular example doesn't work however I have no idea. It
> > appears that the problem is related to the first two cases in the switch
> > (/q/i and /s/i) since commenting those out removes the syntax error.
> the cases work (or at least compile) with explicit m// usage: m/q/i and
> m/s/i. This is mentioned in the Switch documentation, if the '?' there
> means 'any delimiter'.
>
> LIMITATIONS
> Due to the heuristic nature of Switch.pm's source parsing, the
> presence of regexes specified with raw "?...?" delimiters may cause
> mysterious errors. The workaround is to use "m?...?" instead.
As there's a documented and apparently working workaround for the
reported issue, I'm closing this bug.
Bill, I now notice I didn't CC you in my earlier message quoted above.
Sorry about that. Please let me know if you want to turn this into a
wishlist bug for removing the limitation; I wouldn't hold my breath
waiting for that though...
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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