> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Prais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:55 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: help with outputting information
> 
> 
> 
> I am opening a file and just want to check to make sure that 
> the file is
> being read correctly therefore I am using the following piece 
> of code but
> getting an error message but according to what I have read it 
> is formatted
> correctly.
> 
> 1. #/usr/bin/perl
> 2. #open a file with the filehandle
> 3.
> 4.
> 5. open WORKFLOW, "..\\..\\workflow.txt"  or die "Cannot open Workflow
> $!\n";
> 6.    While (<WORKFLOW>){
> 7.    #chomp;   #a)
> 8.     my $line=$_;
> 9.    Print STDRR "\nline: $line";
> 10.   }
> 
> 
> ERROR MESSAGE:
> syntax error at test line 6, near "){"
> Can't use global $_ in "my" at test line 8, near "=$
> syntax error at test line 10, near "}"
> Execution of test aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

While => while
Print => print
STDRR => STDERR

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