On Aug 3, West, William M said: >$ perl -e ' $entry = "willy"; (print "1") if (/$entry/) while ($_ = "will"); >print "0"' >syntax error at -e line 1, near ") while" >Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
Check 'perldoc perlsyn'. It explains that the "statement modifiers", things like '... if CONDITION' and '... while CONDITION' are only allowed after *simple* statements -- what they really should say is "expressions". You're allowed to write print 1 if /willy/; because 'print 1' is an expression. You can't write print 1 if /willy/ while <FILE>; because 'print 1 if /willy' is not an expression, it's a statement. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
