Re: perl-mode confused whith split(/,/,$var);

[Richard M. Stallman]

    Can someone point me at what may be causng the perl-mode colors on linux to
    be different then on solaris.

I think there is a misunderstanding in that sentence.  Solaris is a
complete operating system, which Emacs can run on, but Linux is just a
kernel.  Linux is not sufficient to run programs such as Emacs.  So
when you say "Linux", I think you must mean the GNU/Linux system,
which is a complete system comparable to Solaris.

Calling that system "Linux" is giving the credit for our work to
someone else.  If you'd like to ask for our help, would you please
give us a share of the credit, by calling the system "GNU/Linux"?

See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation.