Joel wrote:
> I'm running perl under windows XP and I keep geting this error:
> 
> syntax error at (Directory and filename) Line 6, near " )
> {"
> syntax error at (directory and filename) line 9 near "}"
> 
> The source code is below, but this happens with loops in general. Any
> ideas? 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> #!usr/bin/perl
> 
> $a=1000

Need a semicolon at end of this line.

> 
> until ($a==0)
> {
> print "Counting down to 0 from $a";
> $a--;
> }
> else (print "Blast off!")

"else" cannot be used with "until"; only with "if". This line should just
read:

   print "Blast off!";

HTH

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