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From: se12@cs.vu.nl (Software Engin 91)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Novice problem: why is this a syntax error?
Summary: Sorry.
Keywords: if, then, else, help, novice
Message-ID: <8070@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 29 Oct 90 15:56:15 GMT
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Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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Sorry.
I asked a question about an if {...} else {...} -construct which perl didn't
understand.
But i have found the error now. The first line of my perl script read
#/usr/local/bin/perl
...instead of:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

So the file was being fed to sh (or maybe even csh), instead of perl.

Sorry for bothering you all.
It is my first perl script, after all.

-					Gerben.