On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:05:08 -0800, you wrote:
>my $missingPatch = "no";
> foreach $patch (@patches)
> {
> $showrev = `showrev -p | grep \"Patch: $patch\"`;
> if ( length ($showrev) == 0 ) # meaning the patch isn't installed
> {
> ...............
> if ( exists $installedPatch[1] )
> { ($instPatchID, $instPatchVer) = split(/-/,
>$installedPatch[1]); }
>
> if ( ( exists $patchName[1] ) && ($patchName[1] lt $instPatchVer
>) )
> {
> ........
> }
> else
> {
> ......
> $missingPatch = "yes";
> }
> }
> }
>if ( $missingPatch =~ m/yes/ ) --- > this is where the error occurs.
Count your braces. The right brace immediately above this if statement
closes the scope of your "my" variable, so the $missingPatch in the if
is a different (and obviously uninitialized) variable.
--
Eric Amick
Columbia, MD
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