this stuff is way above my head.
here is a program (that works) which reads a text file with lines of the form
James = "William"
Leonard = "DeForest"
Montgomery = "James"
and sets the variable $James to "William", and so on. note that line 3 is
commented out.
1 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
2 use diagnostics;
3 #my $James;
4
5 open("FP", "< config");
6 while(<FP>) {
7 chomp;
8 /^(\w+)\s+=\s+\"(.*)\"/;
9 $$1 = $2;
10 }
11 close(FP);
12 print ": $James\n";
the only error message is that this code produces is that "$James" might to a
typo because it appears only once in the code. fair enough. so i uncomment
line 3. NOW the error message is that $James is uninitialized.
i don't completely grok scoping in perl, but this seems ridiculous. why would
perl complain that the variable is uninitialized?
pete
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