Thanks to all for writing. Indeed I had forgotten to use the !usr/bin/perl at the top. I thought I had. I guess it was trying to execute as a shell script.
Problem solved. Thanks. Sebastian On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:13:33PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:22:40 -0400 Sebastian Canagaratna > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (3) gives: syntax error near unexpected token '(<*' > > I haven't read the whole thread, but of course if you don't put a > #!/usr/bin/perl line at the top of your script the shell tries to > execute it itself and will fail. > > chj > > > -- > 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]