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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl Script Syntax error in version 4 Post 302252608 by youareapkman on Thursday 30th of October 2008 12:05:15 AM
Old 10-30-2008
Perl Script Syntax error in version 4

Hi , I use the following simple perl script to find the yesterday time

Code:
perl  -e ' use POSIX(strftime); print POSIX::strftime("%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime(time-86400*$ARGV[0]))' 1

However in the perl version 4 , it gives me the following error :
Quote:
syntax error in file /tmp/perl-eK4elEa at line 1, next 2 tokens "use POSIX"
syntax error in file /tmp/perl-eK4elEa at line 1, next 2 tokens "POSIX:"
Execution of /tmp/perl-eK4elEa aborted due to compilation errors.
Do the perl version 4 does not support use POSIX???
 

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PFUNC(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  PFUNC(1)

NAME
pfunc - grep for perl functions SYNOPSIS
pfunc subroutine FILES... DESCRIPTION
pfunc searches the named FILES for all calls to the given subroutine. It will report back the file and line number each call is found on along with what sort of call it is function foo() class method Class->foo() object method $obj->foo() EXAMPLE
$ pfunc isa /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/*.pm Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 316 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 327 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 397 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 494 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 495 Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CPAN.pm at line 4957 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 191 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 218 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 248 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 251 Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 254 Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Shell.pm at line 28 Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm at line 12 NOTES
Its not fast, but its accurate. AUTHOR
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
Module::Info perl v5.12.1 2002-12-05 PFUNC(1)
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