Thanks to all who kindly <grin> pointed out that I'd missed the ";" after the "use strict". Isn't it amazing how we sometimes miss the most obvious? The mind is truely an incredible filter... Stewart >At 04.56 -0500 1998.11.10, PwrSurge wrote: >>"Each perl command must have a semi-colon at the end, unless it is a >>subroutine, or the last line of the script" > >This is not true, but certainly, it does not hurt to put semicolons in anyway. > >#!perl -wl >{print 1} >{print 2} >{print 3} >exit > >I suppose this might be more true: "Each complete Perl statement must end >with a semicolon, unless it is the last statement in a block." > >-- >Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ >%PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) --- Stewart Leicester "Ad Astra StewartL@JenSoft.com JenSoft Technologies Per Aspera" 925/551-0130 ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch