Syntax checker does not return the correct error message

[azawawi]

The following snippet

foreach my ($a, $b) (1..10) { }

should return the following error in the syntax window

Missing $ on loop variable at -e line 1.

But it doesnt even though perl -c -e "foreach my ($a, $b) (1..10) { }" does.

This happened on Strawberry Perl v5.10.1 and later but I could not replicate it on other platforms.

[azawawi]

Quick update. I tried the following snippet and the error message was displayed on the second line.

use strict;
$foo;
foreach my ($a, $b) (1..10) { }

[azawawi]

So far i found that on win32 there is some kind of formatting involved since $ENV{TMPDIR} has a long path by default.

set TMPDIR=d:\tools
perl dev.pl

works!

An example problematic error output that we need to parse on win32:

Missing $ on loop variable at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\eoZOOAXzTg
	line 3 (#1)
    (F) Apparently you've been programming in csh too much.  Variables
    are always mentioned with the $ in Perl, unlike in the shells, where it
    can vary from one line to the next.
    
Uncaught exception from user code:
	Missing $ on loop variable at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\eoZOOAXzTg line 3.
 at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\eoZOOAXzTg line 3

[azawawi]

It happens when the filename is very long

[azawawi]

Fixed in r13195

Thanks :)