perl coding ?

[Kirk Strauser]

At 2004-04-21T17:29:34Z, Mark Ovens <mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org> writes:

> $dup-number = substr($dup-counter, 0, length($dup-counter) - 1);

Did you actually test that?  I'm pretty sure Perl doesn't like dashes in
variable names:

    % perl -e '$foo-bar = 1;'
    Can't modify subtraction (-) in scalar assignment at -e line 1, near "1;"
    Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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