Re: perlrun.pod lies :)

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 16:06:57 EST, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
>perlrun (for 5.005_02) says that switch processing, when using the is
>switch to Perl, stops upon reaching the argument --.
>
>That's not entirely true.  It stops when it reaches an argument BEGINNING
>with '--':
>
>  % perl -s prog -foo -bar -this-works --this-stops processing

Try this.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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Change 4779 by gsar@auger on 2000/01/10 05:06:16

	terminate -s switch processing only on C<-->, not on C<--foo>

Affected files ...

... //depot/perl/perl.c#204 edit

Differences ...

==== //depot/perl/perl.c#204 (text) ====
Index: perl/perl.c
--- perl/perl.c.~1~	Mon Jan 10 09:38:08 2000
+++ perl/perl.c	Mon Jan 10 09:38:08 2000
@@ -2827,7 +2827,7 @@
 	for (; argc > 0 && **argv == '-'; argc--,argv++) {
 	    if (!argv[0][1])
 		break;
-	    if (argv[0][1] == '-') {
+	    if (argv[0][1] == '-' && !argv[0][2]) {
 		argc--,argv++;
 		break;
 	    }
End of Patch.

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Follow-Ups from:

Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

References to:

Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>

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