It works fine for me under bash. How are you running it? I just pasted it into a file, called it test.pl, and did perl test.pl. Worked fine with both 5.6.1 and 5.005_03.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Thanks Pietro for you reply. Here are some details. > > The program foreach (<*>){ > print "$_\n"; > } > gives (1) no error with perl -c > (2) runs ok from the command line with perl -e > (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' > > The same happens when I replace the <*> with glob("*"): > syntac error near unexpected token '(glob(' > > It may be that the fact that bash is the shell is the problem. I tried > changing shells to csh, but it made not difference. Another puzzle is > that it runs ok from the command line. > > Sebastian. > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:14:47PM +0200, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > > foreach (<*>){ > > > print "$_\n"; > > > } > > > or <*> replaced by glob('*') > > > > > > do not work. > > > > what happens exactly? any error messages? any output? > > > > the glob function is implemented with csh, so this could be a csh > > problem. > > > > pietro. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Sebastian Canagaratna > Department of Chemistry > Ohio Northern University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
