I stand corrected. The original error message would still have been
helpful though.
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Jeff Seger
Fairchild Semiconductor
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Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
12/09/2003 09:08 AM
To: Jeffrey Seger/Corporate/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: perl dbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with place holders
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:40:45 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When using qq style quoting, you have to use a character that is not
> contained within your string. Try qq{ } instead of qq( ). If it's even
> compiling, I don't know why.
As long as the parenthesis are balanced they may be included. Try this:
perl -e "print qq(this is a test() this is only a test\n);"
It works for me in Linux Perl 5.8.1.
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