Thankyou! I didn't mean to denigrate textmate, but had been wondering why things didn't look as nice as I thought they should, when I realized the regex was causing problems!
Hi Thomas,
On 8 Nov 2011, at 20:38, Thomas Blom wrote:
> I was trying to figure out why the syntax highlighting in perl sucked so much, when I realized it was getting messed up by some regex code.
>
> Paste this into file (e.g. test.pl) and view in textmate. Does the 2nd function hilight correctly? It is the /\\/ regex I think - comment the first one out and watch the hilighting change.
>
> sub fn() {
> # some perl code
> my $f = shift;
> if( $f =~ /\\/ ) {
> my $var = "Hello";
> }
> }
>
> sub fn2() {
> # some perl code
> my $f = shift;
> if( $f =~ /\\/ ) {
> my $var = "Hello";
> }
> }
syntax highlighting for Perl is not so easy but in that case you can fix the highlighting if you simply make usage of the "standard" syntax in the if clauses:
...
my $f = shift;
if( $f =~ m/\\/ ) {
....
write m// instead of // .
Cheers,
--Hans
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