I think I've found a bug in cperl-mode.el, but I don't program enough lisp to offer a solution. I don't know where to submit this as a cperl-mode bug report, so I'll ask here: Does anyone have a suggestion of where I should report the following bug?

I have cperl-mode.el.5.22 from http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/software/emacs/

I have emacs GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2006-05-02 on hs20-bc1-4.build.redhat.com

The following perl code won't auto-indent after the assignment to $a: 

#!/usr/bin/
perl

my $a =
"
()";

for (@a) {

};

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Because '()' appears on in a multi-line string and not on the first line.

In reply to cperl-mode bug by barvin

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