wrong syntax highlighting for some perl code

[vsespb]

in the following valid perl code

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $s = \"somestring";
print Dumper($s);

mcedit does not see closing quote of somestring.
same for singlequotes.

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.1
Built with GLib 2.31.20
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

[andrew_b]

Closed as duplicate of #2142.
Please use search before create tickets.

[egmont]

Just FYI: ​http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393 [Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof]