Fix quotewords

Subject: Re: Fix for ::SUPER with UNIVERSAL

In <199703052319.SAA32568@rio.atlantic.net>, Chip Salzenberg writes:
:Cute.  It turns out that FileHandle and IO::Handle were okay, but the
:handling of ::SUPER (which is used by IO::Handle::new) was broken in
:the face of UNIVERSAL.
:
:Here's a patch.
That fixes it.
Here's one back - I think Text::ParseWords->quotewords is more broken than
this, but it's a start.

p5p-msgid: 199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk

diff --git a/lib/Text/ParseWords.pm b/lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
index f86c8c2..f2e1514 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+++ b/lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
@@ -95,12 +95,12 @@ sub quotewords {
     while (length($_)) {
        $field = '';
        for (;;) {
-            $snippet = '';
-           if (s/^"(([^"\\]|\\[\\"])*)"//) {
+           $snippet = '';
+           if (s/^"(([^"\\]|\\.)*)"//) {
                $snippet = $1;
                 $snippet = "\"$snippet\"" if ($keep);
            }
-           elsif (s/^'(([^'\\]|\\[\\'])*)'//) {
+           elsif (s/^'(([^'\\]|\\.)*)'//) {
                $snippet = $1;
                 $snippet = "'$snippet'" if ($keep);
            }