On 8/29/07, Caduceus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every time I try to use perl 5.8.8 I keep geting the error message > "Barewood found where operator expected at - line 1, near "/perl/bin" > <Missing operator before bin?>" What am I doing wrong here and how can > I fix it.
The message says that you're running a Perl program named '-', and the error was discovered while processing line 1 of that file, where the source text said something like "/perl/bin". The file probably isn't named with just a hyphen; that's the name Perl uses when the program didn't come from a true file (for example, when the program is supplied on STDIN, or via the -e run-time switch). > I'm using activestate perl. The command I'm trying is > C:/Perl/bin/perl5.8.8.exe perl -v. I'm not a Windows user, so I can't check this. But I think that the free word "perl" in that command line is superfluous, isn't it? Maybe you want this command: C:/Perl/bin/perl5.8.8.exe -v Good luck with it! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
