[Templates] DELIMITER => '|'

[Brad Bowman]

Hello,

While trying to debug a tt2 program on Windows I set the
DELIMITER option to '|' and got the following error:

  file error - INCLUDE_PATH exceeds 64 directories

Which I think results indirectly from:

    # coerce INCLUDE_PATH to an array ref, if not already so
    $path = [ split(/$dlim/, $path) ]
        unless ref $path eq 'ARRAY';

  "/usr/lib/perl5/Template/Provider.pm" line 353

The '|' is interpreted as a regex metachar instead of a literal.
This surprised me and the error message was a also misleading.

If the DELIMITER should be a literal then a \Q is needed, but
that would break this line (earlier in Provider.pm)
  $dlim = ($^O eq 'MSWin32') ? ':(?!\\/)' : ':';

Alternatively, and preferably in my view, DELIMITER could just be
documented as a split pattern.

This is TT2 version 2.14.

Thanks,

Brad

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