1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
index 0772d565a88..2ae0f6b8575 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ changed by, or (parse-state) if line starts in a quoted string."
                 ((looking-at (or nochange perl-nochange)) 0)
                 (t
                  (skip-chars-forward " \t\f")
-                 (cond ((looking-at "\\(\\w\\|\\s_\\)+:")
+                 (cond ((looking-at "\\(\\w\\|\\s_\\)+:[^:]")
                         (setq indent (max 1 (+ indent perl-label-offset))))
                        ((= (following-char) ?})
                         (setq indent (- indent perl-indent-level)))