----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Mangold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: 'use' question
> ok sorry for the lack of a script before,
>
> here is a little test script i wrote to try to figure out how to use the
> Getopt::Std module.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> !#/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> use Getopt::Std;
>
> getopt("abc");
>
> print "$opt_a - $opt_b - $opt_c\n";
> -----------------------------------------------
>
You are missing a semi-colon at the end of line 1....
after the #!/usr/local/bin/perl
