"Christopher D . Lewis" wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:19 AM, Peter Scott wrote:
>
> > [responding to replacement of sub displayResults with {print __LINE__
> > . " sub displayResults";}]
> > That needs to be __LINE__, not __line__. The above is an error.
> > You do have -w and use strict in this program, right?
>
> When I use "__LINE__, "... in a test script[1] I get:
> No comma allowed after filehandle at print_line.pl line 5.
>
> When I use "__LINE__ . "... in a test script[2] I get:
> __line__ sub displayResults
^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^
> (I had imagined __LINE__ might have been intended to print the line
> number in which Perl thought the line occurred, but then, I am not
> familiar with "__" in Perl ...)
>
> [huge snippage]
>
> [1]
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # print_line.pl
>
> use strict
> print __line__, " sub displayResults\n";
^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^
> [2]
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # print_line.pl
>
> use strict
> print __line__ . " sub displayResults\n";
^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^
This should be __LINE__ NOT __line__
John
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