Why not just look for "-->" to end it?
-JB
la mouton wrote:
>
> This fixes a bug in declaration handling. HTML::Parser supports comments
> within declarations (<! foo -- comment -->) incorrectly. Once we trigger
> a comment "--" we look for the next instance of "--" to denote the end of
> the comment. I put in a check for the end of tag character '>', otherwise
> we dont get out of comment mode before the appearance of another "--"
> marker.
>
> -f
>
> diff -u -r HTML-Parser-3.06/hparser.c HTML-Parser-3.06.fixed/hparser.c
> --- HTML-Parser-3.06/hparser.c Mon Mar 6 08:30:13 2000
> +++ HTML-Parser-3.06.fixed/hparser.c Tue Mar 7 11:24:54 2000
> @@ -792,8 +792,10 @@
> s++;
>
> while (1) {
> - while (s < end && *s != '-')
> + while (s < end && *s != '-' && *s != '>')
> s++;
> + if (*s == '>')
> + goto DONE;
> if (s == end)
> goto PREMATURE;
> s++;
> @@ -824,7 +826,8 @@
> if (s == end)
> goto PREMATURE;
> if (*s == '>') {
> - s++;
> + DONE:
> + s++;
> report_event(p_state, E_DECLARATION, beg, s, tokens, num_tokens,
> offset, self);
> FREE_TOKENS;
