Kevin Walzer wrote: > Running this code in Perl: > > use LWP::Simple; > my $url = "http://mywebsite.com/foo.ini";; > my $page = get($url); > > produced this error: > > sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Those error messages are coming from your shell, not perl i.e., your sh shell is attempting to run the script and not perl. Do you have a shebang line in the script and is it pointing to perl? How did you execute the script? > > The error message in question refers to unbalanced quotes, but there > were no unbalanced quotes in my code. > > This error was driving me crazy until I tried to see what was happening > using curl. This was more helpful: > > curl http://mywebsite.com/foo.ini > foo.ini > > yielded a 404 error: the page was missing. > > OK, that explains the unexpected EOF. But why the "mismatched quote" > error in Perl? Is there any way to get more helpful error messages, i.e. > "missing page"? > > --Kevin > > > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin/Mobile Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > http://www.wtmobilesoftware.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
