Re: Pod::Simple can treat binary as pod due to liberal/inconsistent regexp patterns

On Jan 12, 2015, at 11:42 AM, David E. Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Honest, since the current regex matches stuff that is not in fact Pod, I think it is reasonable to tighten up the regex to
> 
>    /\A=([a-zA-Z]+[0=9]*)\b/

That one, it turns out, was no less liberal than the previous regex. I added a test matching the pattern Randy identified, and it failed with this regex, too. So I instead copied the regex from later in the file, which *is* sufficiently more strict, and brings them into line, to boot. The change is here:

  https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/commit/31942ec

Look good? If so, I will update perlpodspec to match it and send it off to p5p.

Best,

David