On Jun 23, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Andrew Green wrote:

qq(Hello World);
qq{Hello World};
qq|Hello World|;

This latter form, although a little weird, is nonetheless valid Perl, and something I use all the time. The new Perl bundle recognises the former two perfectly, but not the latter.

In the language editor, look for the following for the Perl language: name = "string.unquoted.qq.perl";

Change begin = "qq([^\(\{\[])"; to begin = "qq([^\(\{\[\|])"; ^^^

There is a note in the svn log regarding pipes (|) not working, however. There's also a note about "arbitrary" quote characters, but that obviously isn't implemented in the current (r1220) revision of the syntax.

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Oh… must have missed that note. This is actually a TM bug (which I wasn't aware of). It interprets special characters in the back- reference, resulting in | not being matched literally.

Darn it, I knew there was something wrong! :)

I'll fix that for 1.1b14 — until then, a special rule to handle | can be made, similar to the special rules for the brackets.

I tried a special rule

{ name = "string.quoted.double.q-pipe.perl"; begin = "\bq[qwx]*\|"; end = "\|"; patterns = ( { match = "(\b(.*)\b)"; } ); },

It didn't work either. Confusion.

best, Eric

--- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu@math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

Because it's placed _below_ the general rule, and the general one doesn't exclude |.

I am a very silly person. I got confused between my first attempt to change it and my later one merged with the rename.

What's the patterns about btw?

I don't get the question....?

I also don't get the nested qq thing you talk about on the blog and previous e-mails...

best, Eric --- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu@math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:36:09 -0700, Chris Thomas wrote:

(I don't know the answer, but that's what I suspect. Ruby may have an issue here too.)

Paste the following into Terminal:

perl -e "print qq(Does (Perl (Match (Nested) Parenteses) Properly?)\n);"

Seems to work fine!

Cheers, Andrew.

perl -e "print qq(Does (Perl (Match (Nested) Parenteses) Properly?) \n);"

Okay, I see. Wow, I never knew Perl did that... Why the heck would you have this 'feature'? I mean, given that you can just do qq{Does (Perl (Match (Nested) Parentheses) Properly?}... it must be for crazy variable interpolation schemes.

But I see that BBEdit highlights the line correctly, so...

- Eric

--- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu@math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:36:34 +0200, Allan Odgaard wrote:

I'll fix that for 1.1b14...

And indeed you did! Thanks, Allan.

Cheers, Andrew.