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Fix stat/file tests on filehandles and stat _ parsing #245

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20 changes: 10 additions & 10 deletions src/main/java/org/perlonjava/frontend/parser/OperatorParser.java
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Expand Up @@ -694,13 +694,22 @@ static OperatorNode parseStat(Parser parser, LexerToken token, int currentIndex)
paren = true;
}

if (nextToken.text.equals("_")) {
// Handle `stat _`
TokenUtils.consume(parser);
if (paren) {
TokenUtils.consume(parser, OPERATOR, ")");
}
return new OperatorNode(token.text,
new IdentifierNode("_", parser.tokenIndex), parser.tokenIndex);
}

// stat/lstat: bareword filehandle (typically ALLCAPS) should be treated as a typeglob.
// Consume it here, before generic expression parsing can turn it into a subroutine call.
if (nextToken.type == IDENTIFIER) {
String name = nextToken.text;
if (name.matches("^[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*$")) {
TokenUtils.consume(parser);
// autovivify filehandle and convert to globref
GlobalVariable.getGlobalIO(FileHandle.normalizeBarewordHandle(parser, name));
Node fh = FileHandle.parseBarewordHandle(parser, name);
Node operand = fh != null ? fh : new IdentifierNode(name, parser.tokenIndex);
Expand All @@ -710,15 +719,6 @@ static OperatorNode parseStat(Parser parser, LexerToken token, int currentIndex)
return new OperatorNode(token.text, operand, currentIndex);
}
}
if (nextToken.text.equals("_")) {
// Handle `stat _`
TokenUtils.consume(parser);
if (paren) {
TokenUtils.consume(parser, OPERATOR, ")");
}
return new OperatorNode(token.text,
new IdentifierNode("_", parser.tokenIndex), parser.tokenIndex);
}

// Parse optional single argument (or default to $_)
// If we've already consumed '(', we must parse a full expression up to ')'.
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