#!perl -w print "1..5\n"; my $file = "F-Pathological.pl"; open F, ">$file" or die "Open $file: $!"; my $prog = <<'EOT'; #!./perl -anF[~#QQ\\xq'] BEGIN { *ARGV = *DATA; } print "@F"; __DATA__ okx1 okq2 ok\3 ok'4 EOT # 2 of the characters toke.c used to use to quote the split parameter: $prog =~ s/QQ/\x01\x80/; # These 2 plus ~ # and ' were enough to make perl choke print F $prog; close F or die "Close $file: $!"; print system ($^X, $file) ? "not ok 5\n" : "ok 5\n"; unlink $file or die "Unlink $file: $!";