RE: [techtalk] Perl help needed

2000-06-23 Thread Fan, Laurel
Lynn Kuhlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > I don't have a debugger at work so I'm blind. If you're talking about perl, you do actually have a debugger, since one comes with it. man perldebug, which in essence says "perl -d is a debugger". (of course, it must be 'compiled' ok, so it might not help

Re: [techtalk] Perl help needed

2000-06-22 Thread Alex Yan
Hi Lynn, The error below means that there are too many asterisk characters ('*') in the regular expression, which is probably caused by the fact that there's a '*' character in what you're trying to match (the last line in FILE2). If you truly want to match that, try this: $string2 = quotemet

[techtalk] Perl help needed

2000-06-22 Thread Lynn Kuhlman
Help! When I try to compile Converttags.pl I get the following error: /\*\s**#ifdef yeah |*#ifdef yeah /: nested *?+ in regexp at converttags.pl line 15, chunk 13. Here's the code: Besides the regex problem I also think there is a looping problem as well. I don't have a debugger at work s