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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting perl version for syntax errors Post 302420527 by bigben1220 on Wednesday 12th of May 2010 02:05:11 AM
Old 05-12-2010
perl version for syntax errors
All,

Does it matter what perl verios your running when you get syntax errors?

on version 5.6.1 the code works fine, but on 5.8.0 the code gets errors?

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#use strict;
#use warnings;
my $mess = 'messages';
my $mess1 = 'messages.1';
my $mess2 = 'messages.2';
my $mess3 = 'messages.3';
my $mess4 = 'messages.4';
if (-e $mess4)
{print "File $mess4 exists.\n"}

errors:

line 7: my: command not found
line 8: my: command not found
line 9: my: command not found
line 10: my: command not found
line 11: my: command not found
line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
line 15: `else {'

Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Ben
Last edited by pludi; 05-12-2010 at 03:18 AM..
 

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