Charles K. Clarkson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > You have $locdate scoped to the sub and all the other scoped > outside the sub.
That's the "my" bit, right? Filed. Thanks. > You are also printing the new date into the log > instead of just returning the new date which is implied by the > sub name. The was my first plan, but when I couldn't get the value to return from the sub the way I wanted it I gave up and just printed to the log in the sub. I still have no idea what I did wrong. > $retdate should NOT be in quotes. What are the consequences of putting it in quotes? Every place I print in the rest of the script I've enclosed the variables in quotes, even when I do things like: print LOG "var1 has value $var1\n"; I can change it, but I just want to understand why it's a bad thing. A pointer to documentation is fine. Also, I want to thank everyone for all the suggestions. I've learned a lot from your answers. I started with this, my first *real* perl project (and first real programing project since college -- 12 years ago) on Monday, so that's why my code sucks. :) --J(K) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
