Highlighting not valid for -X perl sytax

Binary package hint: gedit

Gedit 2.22.3
Ubuntu 8.04.1

Checking the size of a file using the -s causes the highlighter to think that the rest of the program key words (commands) are text. For example
    $text = (($size = -s $file)) ? "$size bytes" : 'empty';
    print $text;

will cause the $file)) to appear in red background with pink letters, the "?", ":", and ";" to appear in pink along with the following print command and the ";". The $text appears in green as it should for variables

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 29 12:35:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gedit
NonfreeKernelModules: hsfengine wl nvidia
Package: gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686