On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:33:43PM +0200, Maurice Lucas wrote: > $ ./count.pl /var/log/file text > this works fine but sometimes the "text" is "foo(bar)" and then my scripts > gives an error. > syntax error near unexpected token `foo(b'
That's a shell issue, not a Perl issue. Escape your brackets or quite your text so that bash (or sh or whatever) won't try to do something special with it. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
