Hello Aaron,

Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 4:15:22 PM, you wrote:

>> I am trying to set up formatted printing and seem to be blocked by use
>> strict.

AT> Its for your own good!

Which is why I always use it!

AT> Its not stopping you from doing formatted printing - its stopping you from
AT> writing dodgy perl :)

But I used the description from the Programming Perl book

AT> Have you been reading too much Solena Sol or Matt Wright ? Did you forget to
AT> read Randal Shwartz ?

As above

>> Errors:
>> Use of comma-less variable list is deprecated at line 5.

AT> try :
AT> format $LINE = <<end_of_format;

AT> ..

AT> end_of_format

This gives Syntax error near "format $LINE"

>> Global symbol "$text" requires explicit package name at line 5.
>> Global symbol "$data" requires explicit package name at line 5.

AT> try :
AT> my $text, $data , $line

AT> after the use strict;

Had used that

>> Bareword LINE not allowed while "strict subs" in use

AT> use '$line' instead ?

$LINE or $line?

AT> Remember 'use strict' is like a nagging spouse without whom you'd never do
AT> the washing up or laundry and spend all day watching TV in your pijamas
AT> while eating take-away.. it might be easier not to bother now but you'll be
AT> glad in the long run :)

AT> HTH

AT> regards,

AT> A.

AT> --
AT> Aaron J Trevena, BSc (Hons)     www.head2head.co.uk
AT> Internet Application Developer  Perl, UNIX, IIS/ASP


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