- A here-doc invoked through an 'e' modifier on a pattern replacement text is not recognized
- For example, the output of perltidy for this script has a syntax error:
-
- my $text="Hello World!\n";
- $text =~ s@Hello@<<'END'@e;
- Goodbye
- Cruel
- END
- print "$text\n";
+ The --extrude option can produce code with syntax errors
+ The --extrude tries to put as many newlines in the formatted code as
+ possible. This option is very useful for testing perltidy but not for
+ actual formatting. Occasionally it will produce code which Perl
+ considers to have a syntax error. These problems usually involve code
+ where Perl is having to guess the tokenization based on whitespace.
+ Since the --extrude option is typically only used for testing perltidy,
+ this type of error should not normally occur in practice.