On 1/27/10 Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:53 AM, "Grant" <[email protected]>
scribbled:
> I have a line in a script that lowercases each US state regardless of
> what case the letters are in:
>
> lc($state);
>
> I just saw an error like this:
>
> Safe: syntax error at (eval 1806) line 1, near "lc(or"
>>
>> lc(or)
>
> Which makes me think lc(or) might have some type of special meaning
> that I need to escape. Does it, and if so, how can I escape it?
The lc function expects a scalar argument. 'or' without surrounding quotes
is not a string but an operator that expects to be located between two
scalar expressions. So the error is that you have an expression (or) that
consists of a single operator and no operands. Try 'lc("or");' instead.
Perhaps you have attempted to eval a string containing something like
lc($state) after $state has been interpolated to the string 'or'.
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