Comment marker starts comment even from inside string

[CaptainFlint]

Here is the Perl code:

print "Hello #World!n" if ($something);

The “if ($something);” part is highlighted as comment, except for highlighting of the keyword “if” and special sign “$” takes precedence here. That is, highlighted line looks like following:

print "Hello #World!n" if ($something);

If I remove the sign “#” (a line comment character in Perl) from the string, the highlighting returns to normal:

print "Hello World!n" if ($something);

EmEditor 7.00.9 Pro, WinXP SP3.

[Yutaka Emura]

Flint wrote:
Here is the Perl code:

print "Hello #World!n" if ($something);

The “if ($something);” part is highlighted as comment, except for highlighting of the keyword “if” and special sign “$” takes precedence here. That is, highlighted line looks like following:

print "Hello #World!n" if ($something);

If I remove the sign “#” (a line comment character in Perl) from the string, the highlighting returns to normal:

print "Hello World!n" if ($something);

EmEditor 7.00.9 Pro, WinXP SP3.

This is strange. I cannot reproduce your problem.
Can you try resettings all configurations or Perl configuration?

[CaptainFlint]

Yes, resetting fixed this. Now I remembered that I played a bit with manual comment highlighting (because of this problem, still unsolved), and my highlight rule remained from those experiments. Strange, that I did not notice it before…

Sorry for the false alarm.

[Author]

Posts