Fix bug [perl #24212] : improper error recovery in the

tokenizer after an unknown filetest operator.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21452

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/t/comp/parser.t b/t/comp/parser.t
index 899f8674ee..ca191c2de0 100644
--- a/t/comp/parser.t
+++ b/t/comp/parser.t
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 require "./test.pl";
-plan( tests => 39 );
+plan( tests => 41 );
 
 eval '%@x=0;';
 like( $@, qr/^Can't modify hash dereference in repeat \(x\)/, '%@x=0' );
@@ -123,3 +123,15 @@ EOF
     ok($@ eq  '', "eval $eval");
     is(ref $result, $expect ? 'HASH' : '', $eval);
 }
+
+# Bug #24212
+{
+    local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { }; # silence mandatory warning
+    eval q{ my $x = -F 1; };
+    like( $@, qr/syntax error .* near "F 1"/, "unknown filetest operators" );
+    is(
+        eval q{ sub F { 42 } -F 1 },
+	'-42',
+	'-F calls the F function'
+    );
+}