errors, any way to add clarity?

2001-07-15 Thread Steve MacMullin
Hi everyone, I'm new to using perl and am having a terrible time debugging things because of the (seemingly to me) quite unhelpful run-time errors. I do use: 'use strict;' and get an error like the following: 'Scalar found where operator expected... at end of line (Missing operator before ?)' L

Re: errors, any way to add clarity?

2001-07-15 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Steve MacMullin wrote: > I'm new to using perl and am having a terrible time debugging things because > of the (seemingly to me) quite unhelpful run-time errors. I do use: 'use > strict;' and get an error like the following: 'Scalar found where operator > expected... at end

Re: errors, any way to add clarity?

2001-07-16 Thread Paul
--- Steve MacMullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to using perl and am having a terrible time debugging things > because > of the (seemingly to me) quite unhelpful run-time errors. I do use: > 'use > strict;' and get an error like the following: 'Scalar found where > ope