[comp.lang.perl] Pstruct error

randy@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Longshot) (12/18/89)

I got a "compilation error" on line 31 of the recently posted pstruct program.
It reported the next token as "&", if this helps.

Randy
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (12/18/89)

In article <1989Dec18.071341.22@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> randy@uokmax.UUCP (Longshot) writes:
>I got a "compilation error" on line 31 of the recently posted pstruct program.
>It reported the next token as "&", if this helps.

Line 31 reads:
    while ($line = &nextline) {
The & means to call the function, like "do nextline()".
It sounds like you're running perl version 2 not version 3.  Also, 
version 3 would have reported the next TWO tokens, not just one.

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