not sure, but try print "$File\n";
including the var in the quotes may take care of the problem On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:34 AM, <ckn...@savage.za.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the following code: > #!/usr/bin/perl > use diagnostics; > use strict; > use warnings; > my @Files = </flows/ft*>; > foreach my $File (@Files) { > print $File "\n"; > } > > I have the following files in /flows/ > r...@stats1:/flows# ls -l > total 245M > -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 146 Oct 13 15:31 ParseNetFlow* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Dec 10 2008 fl-v05.2008-12-10.113743+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49M Oct 7 17:04 ft-v05.2009-10-07.164930+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49M Oct 7 17:19 ft-v05.2009-10-07.170421+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13K Oct 13 2009 ft-v05.2009-10-13.204426+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68K Oct 13 2009 ft-v05.2009-10-13.204702+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64K Oct 13 2009 ft-v05.2009-10-13.210153+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.7M Dec 12 2008 tmp-v05.2008-12-12.022828+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.2M Dec 12 2008 tmp-v05.2008-12-12.032751+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27M Dec 12 2008 tmp-v05.2008-12-12.092652+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27M Dec 12 2008 tmp-v05.2008-12-12.102707+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58M Dec 12 2008 tmp-v05.2008-12-12.142812+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 Mar 19 2009 tmp-v05.2009-03-19.224548+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25M Oct 7 17:26 tmp-v05.2009-10-07.171910+0200 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65K Oct 13 15:31 tmp-v05.2009-10-13.211643+0200 > > > I get: > r...@stats1:/flows# ./ParseNetFlow > Can't use string ("/flows/ft-v05.2009-10-07.164930+") as a symbol ref while > "strict refs" in use at ./ParseNetFlow line 9 (#1) > (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic > references are disallowed. See perlref. > > Uncaught exception from user code: > Can't use string ("/flows/ft-v05.2009-10-07.164930+") as a symbol > ref while "strict refs" in use at ./ParseNetFlow line 9. > at ./ParseNetFlow line 9 > > > Naturally, perl doesn't like the + in the file names, but shouldn't it be > seen as a string by default? Is something a mess here, or did my brain > cease to work? > > Thanks, > Chris. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- since this is a gmail account, please verify the mailing list is included in the reply to addresses