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Old 10-09-2010
Problem in perl scripting
I want to use perl scripting for string manipulation. i have tested perl path in linux. it works. i have written small script in perl.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Enter your name" ;
$name = <stdin> ;
print length($name) ;

it is giving me error"unrecognized token" in every line. can anyone help me?
Last edited by admc123; 10-12-2010 at 09:02 AM.. Reason: Code tags
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Old 10-09-2010
What error do you get?
# 3  
Old 10-09-2010
Do a chomp on $name
# 4  
Old 10-11-2010
what error u are getting??
# 5  
Old 10-11-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by admc123
...it is giving me error. can anyone help me?
This is like saying - "My car won't start. What could be the problem?"

We don't know what the problem is! Unless you tell us more about it.

A chomp on $name is not mandatory. Not using it will print an incorrect length though.

Maybe you did not feed the script to the perl interpreter ?

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