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Keywords={
{ Id=1,
List={"if", "else", "elsif", "unless", "given", "when", "default", "while", "for", "foreach", "do", "until", "continue", "return", "last", "next", "redo", "goto", "break", "exit", "sub", "package", "use", "no", "dump", "require", "BEGIN", "CHECK", "INIT", "END", "UNITCHECK", },
},
{ Id=2,
Regex=[[ [$@%]\#?\w+ ]],
},
{ Id=3,
List={"defined", "undef", "eq", "ne", "lt", "gt", "ge", "le", "cmp", "not", "and", "or", "xor", "bless", "ref", "my", "our", "local", "state", "chomp", "chop", "chr", "crypt", "index", "rindex", "lc", "lcfirst", "length", "ord", "pack", "print", "printf", "sprintf", "substr", "uc", "ucfirst", "pos", "quotemeta", "split", "study", "abs", "atan2", "cos", "exp", "hex", "int", "log", "oct", "rand", "sin", "sqrt", "srand", "splice", "unshift", "shift", "push", "pop", "join", "reverse", "grep", "map", "sort", "unpack", "pack", "delete", "each", "exists", "keys", "values", "syscall", "dbmopen", "dbmclose", "binmode", "close", "closedir", "eof", "fileno", "getc", "stat", "lstat", "read", "readdir", "readline", "pipe", "rewinddir", "say", "select", "tell", "telldir", "write", "fcntl", "flock", "ioctl", "open", "opendir", "seek", "seekdir", "sysopen", "sysread", "sysseek", "syswrite", "truncate", "chdir", "chmod", "chown", "chroot", "glob", "link", "mkdir", "readlink", "rename", "rmdir", "symlink", "umask", "unlink", "utime", "caller", "die", "wantarray", "vec", "alarm", "exec", "fork", "getpgrp", "getppid", "getpriority", "kill", "pipe", "setpgrp", "setpriority", "sleep", "system", "times", "wait", "waitpid", "accept", "bind", "connect", "getpeername", "getsockname", "getsockopt", "listen", "recv", "send", "setsockopt", "shutdown", "socket", "socketpair", "msgctl", "msgget", "msgrcv", "msgsnd", "semctl", "semget", "semop", "shmctl", "shmget", "shmread", "shmwrite", "gethostent", "getnetent", "getprotoent", "getservent", "setpwent", "setgrent", "sethostent", "setnetent", "setprotoent", "setservent", "endpwent", "endgrent", "endhostent", "endnetent", "endprotoent", "endservent", "gethostbyaddr", "gethostbyname", "getnetbyaddr", "getnetbyname", "getprotobyname", "getprotobynumber", "getservbyname", "getservbyport", "getpwuid", "getpwnam", "getgrgid", "getgrnam", "getlogin", "getpwent", "getgrent", "gmtime", "localtime", "time", "warn", "formline", "reset", "scalar", "prototype", "lock", "tied", "untie", "qw", "qq", "qx", "q", "eval" },
},
{ Id=4,
Regex=[[->([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)]],
Group=1,
},
{ Id=4,
--# Still only covers more common usage but by far not all
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Group=0
},
}
Strings={
Delimiter=[["|'|`|END]],
}
IgnoreCase=false
Comments={
{ Block=true,
Nested=false,
Delimiter = { [[(?:^=pod|^=head[1234]|^=over|^=item|^=back|^=begin|^=end|^=for|^=encoding)]], [[^=cut\s*\Z]] } },
{ Block=false,
Delimiter= { [[(?<!\\)#]] },
},
}
Operators=[[\(|\)|\[|\]|\{|\}|\,|\;|\:|\&|\<|\>|\!|\=|\/|\*|\+|\-|\$|\.|\^|\~|\%|\|]]
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