This is a bare bone extension providing syntax highlighting to Perl file extensions that does not have language associations in Azure DevOps.

At the time of writing, Microsoft and Azure DevOps for some reason only associates .pl files with Perl. All other common Perl extensions were not included. This aims to address that.

See Overview for full details on what extensions this is enabled on.

To build the extension run npx tfx-cli extension create. It will produce a .vsix that can be added to the market place.

This a direct port from the Microsoft Monaco Editor source language definition for Perl which could be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/blob/main/src/basic-languages/perl/perl.ts

All credit goes to Microsoft for providing the syntax rules.

@jincao1 - Jin Cao