Thanks for your tips; they led to some experiments and gradual understanding of
references. I'm still puzzled by the error messages.
BACKGROUND
Substantively, I am trying to modify Debian's adduser code so that it pays
attention to a template of values from a previous system, to preserve the n
I think I figured out one thing from my earlier message:
print '$template{uname}{ross} =' , $template{uname}{ross}, "\n";
#$template{uname}{ross} =ARRAY(0x20f41d8)
# I'm still surprised this worked. Somehow we've gone 2 levels down with one $.
print '${$template{uname
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Boylan, Ross wrote:
> perl -c adduser gives its first error as
> "my" variable $new_uid masks earlier declaration in same scope at adduser
> line 283.
> First, it doesn't seem to me I'm declaring the variable at all at 283. I
> suppose it could be an implicit de
perl -c adduser gives its first error as
"my" variable $new_uid masks earlier declaration in same scope at adduser line
283.
First, it doesn't seem to me I'm declaring the variable at all at 283. I
suppose it could be an implicit declaration if there wasn't a previous
declaration, but there is
