bump.

I'd love to hear the answer too.
I spent a few minutes scanning cperl-mode.el... there is quite a bit of
discuss of the how's and why's of highlighting and associated issues...
searching for 'ignore-this-line' will uncover quite a few interesting
comment sections too.

M-x find-file cperl-mode


-Will


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Sebastien LE MAGUER <
Sebastien.Le_maguer@irisa.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does someone know how to highlight variables even if the are in a string ?
> (for example, highlight $var in print "var has value $var")
>
> Regards
>
> Sebastien
>