> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Why does this keep happening?
>
> I'm running perl under windows XP and I keep geting this error:
>
> syntax error at (Directory and filename) Line 6, near " )
> {"
> syntax error at (directory and filename) line 9 near "}"
>
> The source code is below, but this happens with loops in
> general. Any ideas?
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> #!usr/bin/perl
>
> $a=1000
>
> until ($a==0)
> {
> print "Counting down to 0 from $a";
> $a--;
> }
> else (print "Blast off!")
>
> Joel
PS, $a and $b are bad choices for variable names in Perl. They are used
by sort().
I've always wondered why there isn't a warning generated for this ....
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