[perl #122415] whole-name-quoted filename can't be read [cpan #57586]

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[Since ExtUtils-Manifest is now primarily maintained by Perl 5 Porters, I am moving this ticket here from https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57586. -- jkeenan]

While adding support for quoted filenames (names with spaces) to Dist::Zilla, I found this bug 
in ExtUtils::Manifest.  If you have a filename that begins and ends with quotes, and you 
enquote it as suggested, it is not properly dequoted.

use strict;
use ExtUtils::Manifest qw(maniread);

---
my $manifest_content = <<'END_MANIFEST';
'\'quoted name.txt\''
END_MANIFEST

{
  open my $fh, '>', 'MANIFEST' or die;
  print $fh $manifest_content;
}

my $manifest = maniread;

print "$_\n" for keys %$manifest;
---


This should print:

  'quoted name.txt'

Instead, it prints:

  quoted name.txt'

-- 
rjbs

• [perl #122415] whole-name-quoted filename can't be read [cpan #57586] by James E Keenan via RT
• [perl #122415] whole-name-quoted filename can't be read [cpan #57586] by James E Keenan