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From: ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Chapter 6 passwd program problem
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.210926.7914@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Date: 5 Feb 91 21:09:26 GMT
Organization: The National Pesticide Information Retrieval System, Purdue University
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I liked the "Programming Perl" approach to setting user passwords and
downloaded the book sources last night.  The source for the
chapter 6 password program complains at two points in the code.

fieldofdreams 438 ### perl -v

This is perl, version 3.0

$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.10 91/01/11 18:22:48 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 44

Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
a copy of which can be found with the Perl 3.0 distribution kit.
fieldofdreams 441 ### ./passwd
syntax error in file ./passwd at line 250, next token "open"
/^(jan|feb|mar(ch)?|apr(il)?|may|june?/: unmatched () in regexp at ./passwd line 647.

Any suggestions?

-Ed

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