Re: [MacPerl] Document Contains No Data (fwd)

[David Turley <dturley@pobox.com>]

In message "[MacPerl] Document Contains No Data (fwd)", Mark Manning/Muniz
Eng. wrote:

>2. Create a new file (if you are on a Unix system) which
>contains commands.  Make the file executable.  Then run
>it.  The commands are:
>
>perl -c <filename>
>
>Where <filename> is the name of your perl scripts.  Run
>this and let Perl check the syntax of your program for
>errors.  Very handy when writing Perl programs.  If you are
>on a Mac (and thus using MacPerl), I believe you can do
>this under MPW.

I do this by adding -c to the shebang line. I have a keyboard shortcut that
runs macperl using Bradls plugins. Very quick and handy.

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