Jon Combe wrote:
The following snippet of code, when saved with a ".pl" file extension
breaks the colour coding in Vim
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $surname = "ABC-DEF GHI";
@split = split ( / |-|\/|\"/ , $surname , -1 );
foreach ( @split )
{
print "$_\n";
}
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The lines after the split (that contains a regular expression) are
highlighted as if they are within a double quoted string. The colour
coding is being confused by the " character in the regular expression
and thinks (incorrectly) that it marks the start of a string. Is it
possible to fix this problem? For example the "foreach" text should
appear in yellow.
The maintainer for perl is: Nick Hibma <n_hibma AT van-laarhoven.org>;
he's the appropriate contact for this sort of thing. I found his name in
vim70/syntax/perl.vim; syntax file maintainers generally put their contact
information in the syntax file they maintain.
Regards,
Chip Campbell