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authorAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>1999-03-01 09:11:36 -0500
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-03-04 03:37:38 +0000
commit31873dd158564755e261eee3e1f9bf51384dc563 (patch)
tree4b47656d3777406d27895b55cce6f7769c0fb549 /pod/pod2man.PL
parentd66be8f9dd1950d2f1f2cf54b4a12386009c7aa5 (diff)
downloadperl-31873dd158564755e261eee3e1f9bf51384dc563.tar.gz
better version of change#3038
Message-ID: <19990301191136.5557.qmail@alexandra.wayne.fnx.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.005_03 TRIAL-5 pod/pod2man.PL] Recognize -> and => inside p4raw-link: @3038 on //depot/perl: 056534bf6b6b1b89850de37d21bf18c33cca9bd7 p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3060
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diff --git a/pod/pod2man.PL b/pod/pod2man.PL
index 11bb74bd67..61b6129ed9 100644
--- a/pod/pod2man.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2man.PL
@@ -678,8 +678,24 @@ $indent = 0;
$begun = "";
-# Unrolling [^-=A-Z>]|[A-Z](?!<)|[-=][\x00-\xFF] gives: // MRE pp 165.
-my $nonest = '(?:[^-=A-Z>]*(?:(?:[-=][\x00-\xFF]|[A-Z](?!<))[^-=A-Z>]*)*)';
+# Unrolling [^-=A-Z>]|[A-Z](?!<)|[-=](?![A-Z]<)[\x00-\xFF] gives: // MRE pp 165.
+my $nonest = '(?x) # Turn on /x mode.
+ (?: # Group
+ [^-=A-Z>]* # Anything that isn't a dash, equal sign or
+ # closing hook isn't special. Eat as much as
+ # we can.
+ (?: # Group.
+ (?: # Group.
+ [-=] # We want to recognize -> and =>.
+ (?![A-Z]<) # So, as long as it isn't followed by markup
+ [\x00-\xFF] # anything may follow - and =
+ |
+ [A-Z] # Capitals are fine too,
+ (?!<) # But not if they start markup.
+ ) # End of special sequences.
+ [^-=A-Z>]* # Followed by zero or more non-special chars.
+ )* # And we can repeat this as often as we can.
+ )'; # That's all folks.
while (<>) {
if ($cutting) {