Thanks Prasanna, that fixed it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Prasanna Kothari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 06 May 2005 02:26 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Cc: Tielman Koekemoer (TNE)
Subject: Re: Calling a subroutine - strict very strict
what is "param".?
If it's a variable, and not declared, qualify it using "my or local".
Else, if it's a string that you want pass to the function, use single
quotes.
-Prasanna
Tielman Koekemoer (TNE) wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I apologise for the newbie question straight off - I don't have my
>Camel book with me to consult.
>
>Why does the following give me an error?:
>
>----------------------
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
>#
># A script that gets a list of technologies that have events on
Display
>layer.
>#
>
>use strict;
>
>sub q_db {
># Insert command that uses $_[0]
>};
>
>my @OPD01=q_db(param);
>------------------------
>
>Error:
>
>Bareword "param" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
>./get_all_technologies.pl line 17.
>Execution of ./get_all_technologies.pl aborted due to compilation
>errors.
>
>TIA!
>
>
>
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