On Nov 17, Sherri said: >Can anyone please tell me what this error means: > >syntax error `(' unexpected
Sounds like you're running your Perl script through the shell, not perl. Try running your code as: perl myprog.pl -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]