diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 459e11ab..440f2074 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
    Adjust Perl Compile command to use the -c command
    line option to perform a syntax check instead of using the
    deprecated ByteCompile module.
+   Add error_regex to parse error messages and warnings when performing
+   syntax checks on Perl files.
 
 
 2010-04-05  Nick Treleaven  <nick(dot)treleaven(at)btinternet(dot)com>
diff --git a/data/filetypes.perl b/data/filetypes.perl
index 07d5ba47..3ea2f80d 100644
--- a/data/filetypes.perl
+++ b/data/filetypes.perl
@@ -78,3 +78,8 @@ compiler=perl -cw "%f"
 #compiler=perlcc -o "%e" "%f"
 
 run_cmd=perl "%f"
+
+# Parse syntax check error messages and warnings, examples:
+# syntax error at test.pl line 7, near "{
+# Unknown warnings category '1' at test.pl line 13
+error_regex=.+ at (.+) line ([0-9]+).*