The shebang line and everything are correct for the script. The script runs
fine when the lines containing "get($ " are commented out. Therefore I'm
assuming that the system is reading that combination of ($ as something
other than what it should. Any ideas of how I could fix that?
>From: "Will Crain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Sparkle Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Unix syntax
>Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:51:15 -0500
>
>Without seeing the complete script, I can only venture to guess. You
>stated
>you were porting a script from WinNT to a Unix environment. Be sure you
>have properly included a "shebang" line at the beginning of your script
>like this:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
>
>where /usr/bin/perl is the path to your installed perl interpreter. Within
>the WinNT environment, the line is not required and perl will process the
>script without it. In Unix without the designation, the shell is
>attempting
>to process the file and the $ designates a command line, not a scalar
>variable.
>
>Hope I'm not totally off base and this helps,
>
>Will
>
>-- Original Message --
>
> >I wrote a program running off a Windows NT platform and was trying to
> >convert it to a UNIX platform. My problem comes with my syntax. I keep
>
> >recieving an error message and was hoping someone could help me fix the
> >
> >syntax so that the script would run.
> >
> > use lib 'LWP::Simple'
> >
> > use LWP::Simple
> >
> > $doc = get ($url)
> >In the brief excerpt above the problem occurs with "get ($". Wherever
>there
> >
> >is an area in the script where there is a value beginning with "($" I get
> >an
> >error. How do I fix that?
> >
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