--- Steve MacMullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to using perl and am having a terrible time debugging things
> because
> of the (seemingly to me) quite unhelpful run-time errors. I do use:
> 'use
> strict;' and get an error like the following: 'Scalar found where
> operator
> expected... at end of line (Missing operator before ?)'
>
> Looking at my code, I have a simple assignment statement, doesn't
> appear to
> be any unclosed braces/quotes/anything up above it.
>
> All of this is sort of beside the point, but the source of my
> trouble. My
> question is this: Is there any method (other than 'use strict;', or
> in
> conjunction with it) that will provide better error messages?
> Perhaps it's
> just my newness to perl, but I've found the error messages from perl
> to be
> quite unhelpful compared to those of C/C++/other languages, I realize
> that
> they are compiled languages with stricter typing, but still. I've
> tried
> 'perldoc strict'- couldn't really think of anything else.
Add the line
use diagnostics -verbose; enable diagnostics;
to your program. It often explains things very well.
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