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  Fri Apr 15 09:59:30 2011 Scott.Stricker [...] NGC.com - Ticket created
Subject: Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded form feed chars.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:59:08 +0000
To: "bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Stricker, Scott (IS)" <scott.stricker [...] ngc.com>
Just reinstalled Activestate perl and am running perlcritic 1.115 in an activestate perl 5.12.3 (1204) on a windows xp pro SP3 machine. I run perlcritic against a perl script with raw form feeds (12) in it and get the following... Problem while critiquing "C:\h\HCS\website\COF_Root\Scripts\Region_Map_OL.pl": Can't parse code: Encountered unexpected character '12' Added the FF characters to paginate the file when printed. Also, just as an FYI, after reloading activestate perl, when I ran perlcritic, I was told that the following modules were missing String-format Perl-tidy Pod-spell PPix-regex Was surprised that they did not come bundled to support perlcritic. I'll do some digging and see if I can also pass the word to the activestate folks. Thanks E. Scott Stricker
  Fri Apr 15 12:24:07 2011 wyant [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Apr 15 09:59:30 2011, stricsc wrote: Show quoted text
> Just reinstalled Activestate perl and am running perlcritic 1.115 in > an activestate perl 5.12.3 (1204) on a windows xp pro SP3 machine. > I run perlcritic against a perl script with raw form feeds (12) in it > and get the following... > Problem while critiquing > "C:\h\HCS\website\COF_Root\Scripts\Region_Map_OL.pl": Can't parse > code: Encountered unexpected character '12' > Added the FF characters to paginate the file when printed. > Also, just as an FYI, after reloading activestate perl, when I ran > perlcritic, I was told that the following modules were missing > String-format > Perl-tidy > Pod-spell > PPix-regex > Was surprised that they did not come bundled to support perlcritic. > I'll do some digging and see if I can also pass the word to the > activestate folks. > > Thanks > > > E. Scott Stricker > > >
I can not duplicate this failure, at least not so far. How relevant this is, given that I have neither ActivePerl nor Windows XP, is not clear (it's Perl Perl so to speak, and Mac OS X). On the presumption that it matters where the form feeds go, can you possibly provide a failing file? Also: can you confirm the version of the Perl PPI module you have installed? Say, with Show quoted text
> perl -MPPI -E "say PPI->VERSION"
I have no idea what is going on with the missing dependencies. Speaking pedantically, there is no such package as (for instance) Perl-tidy, since case is important. I have not yet figured out how, without ActivePerl, to download an individual PPM package, but the package.xml file for Windows and Perl 5.12 seems to include all the missing packages as dependencies, with the correct case. You will know if the missing packages are truly missing, because perlcritic will die horribly when trying to execute policies that use them, even when criticizing files without form feeds. If they are really not there, you should be able to get going by simply installing them. Tom Wyant
  Fri Apr 15 12:24:08 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Apr 15 12:45:33 2011 Scott.Stricker [...] NGC.com - Correspondence added
Subject: RE: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded form feed chars.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:45:13 +0000
To: "bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Stricker, Scott (IS)" <scott.stricker [...] ngc.com>
Thanks for the note Tom. Attached is a file that causes the unexpected character warning. Before I put the heredoc in, it did not have the issue with the form feed. RE: Perl PPI version C:\>perl -MPPI -E "say PPI->VERSION" 1.215 RE: Missing packages. From PPM query results... String-Format │ 1.16 │ sprintf-like string formatting capabilities with Perl-Tidy │ 20101217 │ indent and reformat perl scripts Pod-Spell │ 1.01 │ a formatter for spellchecking Pod PPIx-Regexp │ 0.020 │ Parse regular expressions I was surprised to see missing packages. As I mentioned I just reinstalled ActiveState perl. My previous install, which was the same version did not have this issue. One difference is I do remember doing an update with PPM and seeing perlcritic showing up in the update list. Perhaps the dependencies got loaded when I updated perlcritic. Perlcritic did indeed die 'horribly' when I ran it after the reinstall which is how I figured out which packages were missing. I did install them to fix the issue. Again, the missing packages was more of an FYI as it would seem to be an ActiveState issue rather than a perlcritic issue. E. Scott Stricker Senior Software Engineer Northrop Grumman - Information Systems - C2SD MailStop 4S02 2340 Dulles Corner Blvd. Herndon, VA 20171 703-561-3671 703-713-1601 (fax) Show quoted text
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Wyant via RT [mailto:bug-Perl-Critic@rt.cpan.org] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:24 PM To: Stricker, Scott (IS) Subject: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded form feed chars. <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67491 > On Fri Apr 15 09:59:30 2011, stricsc wrote:
> Just reinstalled Activestate perl and am running perlcritic 1.115 in > an activestate perl 5.12.3 (1204) on a windows xp pro SP3 machine. > I run perlcritic against a perl script with raw form feeds (12) in it > and get the following... > Problem while critiquing > "C:\h\HCS\website\COF_Root\Scripts\Region_Map_OL.pl": Can't parse > code: Encountered unexpected character '12' > Added the FF characters to paginate the file when printed. > Also, just as an FYI, after reloading activestate perl, when I ran > perlcritic, I was told that the following modules were missing > String-format > Perl-tidy > Pod-spell > PPix-regex > Was surprised that they did not come bundled to support perlcritic. > I'll do some digging and see if I can also pass the word to the > activestate folks. > > Thanks > > > E. Scott Stricker > > >
I can not duplicate this failure, at least not so far. How relevant this is, given that I have neither ActivePerl nor Windows XP, is not clear (it's Perl Perl so to speak, and Mac OS X). On the presumption that it matters where the form feeds go, can you possibly provide a failing file? Also: can you confirm the version of the Perl PPI module you have installed? Say, with
> perl -MPPI -E "say PPI->VERSION"
I have no idea what is going on with the missing dependencies. Speaking pedantically, there is no such package as (for instance) Perl-tidy, since case is important. I have not yet figured out how, without ActivePerl, to download an individual PPM package, but the package.xml file for Windows and Perl 5.12 seems to include all the missing packages as dependencies, with the correct case. You will know if the missing packages are truly missing, because perlcritic will die horribly when trying to execute policies that use them, even when criticizing files without form feeds. If they are really not there, you should be able to get going by simply installing them. Tom Wyant

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  Fri Apr 15 13:46:30 2011 wyant [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Fri Apr 15 12:45:33 2011, stricsc wrote: Show quoted text
> Thanks for the note Tom. > > Attached is a file that causes the > unexpected character warning. Before I put the heredoc in, it did > not have the issue with the form feed. > > RE: Perl PPI version > C:\>perl -MPPI -E "say PPI->VERSION" > 1.215 > > RE: Missing > packages. From PPM query results... > > String-Format > │ 1.16 │ sprintf-like string formatting capabilities with > Perl-Tidy │ 20101217 │ indent and reformat perl > scripts > Pod-Spell │ 1.01 │ a formatter for > spellchecking Pod > PPIx-Regexp │ 0.020 │ Parse > regular expressions > > I was surprised to see missing packages. As > I mentioned I just reinstalled ActiveState perl. My previous > install, which was the same version did not have this issue. One > difference is I do remember doing an update with PPM and seeing > perlcritic showing up in the update list. Perhaps the dependencies > got loaded when I updated perlcritic. Perlcritic did indeed die > 'horribly' when I ran it after the reinstall which is how I figured > out which packages were missing. I did install them to fix the > issue. Again, the missing packages was more of an FYI as it would > seem to be an ActiveState issue rather than a perlcritic issue. > E. Scott Stricker > Senior Software Engineer > Northrop Grumman - > Information Systems - C2SD > MailStop 4S02 > 2340 Dulles Corner > Blvd. > Herndon, VA 20171 > 703-561-3671 > 703-713-1601 (fax) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Wyant via RT [mailto:bug- > Perl-Critic@rt.cpan.org] > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:24 PM > To: Stricker, Scott (IS) > Subject: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] > Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded > form feed chars. > > <URL: > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67491 > > > On Fri Apr 15 > 09:59:30 2011, stricsc wrote:
> > Just reinstalled Activestate perl
> and am running perlcritic 1.115 in
> > an activestate perl 5.12.3
> (1204) on a windows xp pro SP3 machine.
> > I run perlcritic against
> a perl script with raw form feeds (12) in it
> > and get the
> following...
> > Problem while critiquing > >
> "C:\h\HCS\website\COF_Root\Scripts\Region_Map_OL.pl": Can't parse
> > code: Encountered unexpected character '12'
> > Added the FF
> characters to paginate the file when printed.
> > Also, just as an
> FYI, after reloading activestate perl, when I ran
> > perlcritic, I
> was told that the following modules were missing
> > String-format
> > Perl-tidy
> > Pod-spell > > PPix-regex > > Was surprised that they
> did not come bundled to support perlcritic.
> > I'll do some digging
> and see if I can also pass the word to the
> > activestate folks. > >
> > Thanks
> > > > > > E. Scott Stricker > > > > > >
> > I can not > duplicate this failure, at least not so far. How relevant this > is, > given that I have neither ActivePerl nor Windows XP, is not clear > (it's Perl Perl so to speak, and Mac OS X). > > On the presumption > that it matters where the form feeds go, can you > possibly provide > a failing file? > > Also: can you confirm the version of the Perl > PPI module you have > installed? Say, with >
> > perl -MPPI -E "say
> PPI->VERSION" > > I have no idea what is going on with the missing > dependencies. Speaking > pedantically, there is no such package as > (for instance) Perl-tidy, > since case is important. I have not yet > figured out how, without > ActivePerl, to download an individual PPM > package, but the package.xml > file for Windows and Perl 5.12 seems > to include all the missing packages > as dependencies, with the > correct case. > > You will know if the missing packages are truly > missing, because > perlcritic will die horribly when trying to > execute policies that use > them, even when criticizing files > without form feeds. If they are really > not there, you should be > able to get going by simply installing them. > > Tom Wyant
Thank you very much. Problem duplicated. Now I have something to go on. I'll investigate further, but I strongly suspect this will end up being a PPI bug. You have the latest PPI, so if my suspicion is correct, the fix will await a PPI release. Interestingly, it fails on ^L my $testvar = <<"END_VAR"; but not on ^L my $testvar = <<"END_VAR";
  Fri Apr 15 13:56:02 2011 Scott.Stricker [...] NGC.com - Correspondence added
Subject: RE: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded form feed chars.
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:55:44 +0000
To: "bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-Perl-Critic [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: "Stricker, Scott (IS)" <scott.stricker [...] ngc.com>
Tom: Assuming a PPI issue, is there anything I need to do to report it, or will it come from your end as related to running perlcritic? Thanks again for looking into this. E. Scott Stricker Senior Software Engineer Northrop Grumman - Information Systems - C2SD MailStop 4S02 2340 Dulles Corner Blvd. Herndon, VA 20171 703-561-3671 703-713-1601 (fax) Show quoted text
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Wyant via RT [mailto:bug-Perl-Critic@rt.cpan.org] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:47 PM To: Stricker, Scott (IS) Subject: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded form feed chars. <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67491 > On Fri Apr 15 12:45:33 2011, stricsc wrote:
> Thanks for the note Tom. > > Attached is a file that causes the > unexpected character warning. Before I put the heredoc in, it did > not have the issue with the form feed. > > RE: Perl PPI version > C:\>perl -MPPI -E "say PPI->VERSION" > 1.215 > > RE: Missing > packages. From PPM query results... > > String-Format > │ 1.16 │ sprintf-like string formatting capabilities with > Perl-Tidy │ 20101217 │ indent and reformat perl > scripts > Pod-Spell │ 1.01 │ a formatter for > spellchecking Pod > PPIx-Regexp │ 0.020 │ Parse > regular expressions > > I was surprised to see missing packages. As > I mentioned I just reinstalled ActiveState perl. My previous > install, which was the same version did not have this issue. One > difference is I do remember doing an update with PPM and seeing > perlcritic showing up in the update list. Perhaps the dependencies > got loaded when I updated perlcritic. Perlcritic did indeed die > 'horribly' when I ran it after the reinstall which is how I figured > out which packages were missing. I did install them to fix the > issue. Again, the missing packages was more of an FYI as it would > seem to be an ActiveState issue rather than a perlcritic issue. > E. Scott Stricker > Senior Software Engineer > Northrop Grumman - > Information Systems - C2SD > MailStop 4S02 > 2340 Dulles Corner > Blvd. > Herndon, VA 20171 > 703-561-3671 > 703-713-1601 (fax) > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Wyant via RT [mailto:bug- > Perl-Critic@rt.cpan.org] > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:24 PM > To: Stricker, Scott (IS) > Subject: EXT :[rt.cpan.org #67491] > Perlcritic reports problem when evaluating a file with embedded > form feed chars. > > <URL: > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67491 > > > On Fri Apr 15 > 09:59:30 2011, stricsc wrote:
> > Just reinstalled Activestate perl
> and am running perlcritic 1.115 in
> > an activestate perl 5.12.3
> (1204) on a windows xp pro SP3 machine.
> > I run perlcritic against
> a perl script with raw form feeds (12) in it
> > and get the
> following...
> > Problem while critiquing > >
> "C:\h\HCS\website\COF_Root\Scripts\Region_Map_OL.pl": Can't parse
> > code: Encountered unexpected character '12'
> > Added the FF
> characters to paginate the file when printed.
> > Also, just as an
> FYI, after reloading activestate perl, when I ran
> > perlcritic, I
> was told that the following modules were missing
> > String-format
> > Perl-tidy
> > Pod-spell > > PPix-regex > > Was surprised that they
> did not come bundled to support perlcritic.
> > I'll do some digging
> and see if I can also pass the word to the
> > activestate folks. > >
> > Thanks
> > > > > > E. Scott Stricker > > > > > >
> > I can not > duplicate this failure, at least not so far. How relevant this > is, > given that I have neither ActivePerl nor Windows XP, is not clear > (it's Perl Perl so to speak, and Mac OS X). > > On the presumption > that it matters where the form feeds go, can you > possibly provide > a failing file? > > Also: can you confirm the version of the Perl > PPI module you have > installed? Say, with >
> > perl -MPPI -E "say
> PPI->VERSION" > > I have no idea what is going on with the missing > dependencies. Speaking > pedantically, there is no such package as > (for instance) Perl-tidy, > since case is important. I have not yet > figured out how, without > ActivePerl, to download an individual PPM > package, but the package.xml > file for Windows and Perl 5.12 seems > to include all the missing packages > as dependencies, with the > correct case. > > You will know if the missing packages are truly > missing, because > perlcritic will die horribly when trying to > execute policies that use > them, even when criticizing files > without form feeds. If they are really > not there, you should be > able to get going by simply installing them. > > Tom Wyant
Thank you very much. Problem duplicated. Now I have something to go on. I'll investigate further, but I strongly suspect this will end up being a PPI bug. You have the latest PPI, so if my suspicion is correct, the fix will await a PPI release. Interestingly, it fails on ^L my $testvar = <<"END_VAR"; but not on ^L my $testvar = <<"END_VAR";
  Sat Apr 16 14:45:40 2011 wyant [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Yes, this was a PPI problem. Thank you for your offer (by mail) to file the ticket. But it turned out to be a one-liner, so I just went ahead and patched it, referring to the patch in the bug report. It is https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67517