Bug#832615: file: misidentifies Perl as C

[Andre Majorel]

Package: file
Version: 1:5.22+15-2+deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear file maintainer,

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @var =
(
  # The next line causes file 5.22 to mistake this file for "C source,
  # ASCII text", even if preceded and followed by a hundred lines of
  # Perl that could never pass for C :
  "main(whatever)",
);

-- 
André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
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