Re: Subroutine Syntax

[Greenhalgh David]

:
: < DO STUFF>
    Comments in perl begin with #, not <
Perl probably thinks you're referring to a
file handle in angle brackets.
 Sorry, this is me using my own shorthand, everything is correctly #'d 
in the code.

: sub error {
:
: <Print top half of a HTML page>
:
:       if ($_[0]=1) {
    '=' is an assignment operator. You're testing if
$_[0] can be set equal to 1. Guess what? It can! It
will always be true.
    	if ( $_[0] == 1 ) {

I knew it was something obvious, == and not =.

Thanks for that.

I think the sub error { syntax error must have been my machine having a 
bad hair day. Ran the syntax check again today without the error being 
flagged. No changes made to the code before hand.

Dave

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