Allow arbitrary whitespace between NAME and VERSION in "package NAME VERSION;" statements

Fixes [perl #72432]

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/toke.c b/toke.c
index 2d383b3019..9df0ff25b0 100644
--- a/toke.c
+++ b/toke.c
@@ -7014,6 +7014,7 @@ Perl_yylex(pTHX)
 
 	case KEY_package:
 	    s = force_word(s,WORD,FALSE,TRUE,FALSE);
+	    s = SKIPSPACE1(s);
 	    s = force_strict_version(s);
 	    OPERATOR(PACKAGE);