[ID 19991208.002] Matching quotes in POD2MAN

This is a bug report for perl from swartik@fricka,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.20 running under perl 5.00404.

On line 873 of pod2man, there is a comment that reads:

	    # if you know how to get ":s please do

Is the problem caused by the lack of a colon in second parenthesized
expression of the regular expression on line 951?  Or should I ask,
why doesn't that RE have a colon?  I inserted one and pod2man translated
":s correctly.  Of course, troff being what it is, there may be a good
reason why the colon was omitted...

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00404:

Configured by root at Tue Jun  2 08:54:04 EDT 1998.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.5, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos fricka 5.5 generic sun4m sparc sunw,sparcstation-20 '
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    bincompat3=y useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-g -DDEBUGGING', gccversion=2.7.2.3.f.1
    cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define
    intsize=4, alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so
    useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_none.xs, dlext=none, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
	

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@INC for perl 5.00404:
	/usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404
	/usr/local/lib/perl5
	/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/sun4-solaris
	/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
	/usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris
	.

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Environment for perl 5.00404:
    HOME=/servers/swartik
    LANG (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/share/bin:/pub/local/bin:/servers/swartik/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/csh

• [ID 19991208.002] Matching quotes in POD2MAN by swartik
• Re: [ID 19991208.002] Matching quotes in POD2MAN by Russ Allbery
• Report 19454 by H.Merijn Brand