* Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
commas?
+ the examples are more closely related to single quoting since
interpolation doesn't happen in these instances.
* What does "bad interpreter" mean?
+ added note that this warning may come from line-end problems
Index: perlfaq7.pod
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RCS file: /cvs/public/perlfaq/perlfaq7.pod,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -d -r1.21 perlfaq7.pod
--- perlfaq7.pod 21 Jan 2005 12:10:22 -0000 1.21
+++ perlfaq7.pod 11 Mar 2005 16:38:51 -0000
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
This is like this
------------ ---------------
- $foo{line} $foo{"line"}
- bar => stuff "bar" => stuff
+ $foo{line} $foo{'line'}
+ bar => stuff 'bar' => stuff
The final semicolon in a block is optional, as is the final comma in a
list. Good style (see L<perlstyle>) says to put them in except for
@@ -905,7 +905,10 @@
right path to perl (or any other program capable of running scripts).
Sometimes this happens when you move the script from one machine to
another and each machine has a different path to perl---/usr/bin/perl
-versus /usr/local/bin/perl for instance.
+versus /usr/local/bin/perl for instance. It may also indicate
+that the source machine has CRLF line terminators and the
+destination machine has LF only: the shell tries to find
+/usr/bin/perl<CR>, but can't.
If you see "bad interpreter: Permission denied", you need to make your
script executable.
--
brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
