Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:54:02 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl coding ? Message-ID: <878ygpatfp.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <4086AF7E.5050102@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> (Mark Ovens's message of "Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:29:34 %2B0100") References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEHHFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> <4086AF7E.5050102@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
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At 2004-04-21T17:29:34Z, Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> writes:
> $dup-number =3D substr($dup-counter, 0, length($dup-counter) - 1);
Did you actually test that? I'm pretty sure Perl doesn't like dashes in
variable names:
% perl -e '$foo-bar =3D 1;'
Can't modify subtraction (-) in scalar assignment at -e line 1, near "1=
;"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
=2D-=20
Kirk Strauser
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