Hi AlexAlex,

a little addendum to the reply by davido:

karls-mac-mini:monks karl$ perl -c  1117265.pl
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 63, near "] )"
Unmatched right curly bracket at 1117265.pl line 138, at end of line
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 138, near "}"
Unmatched right curly bracket at 1117265.pl line 139, at end of line
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 149, near "}"
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 176, near "}"
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 192, near "}"
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 208, near "}"
syntax error at 1117265.pl line 237, near "}"
Unmatched right curly bracket at 1117265.pl line 279, at end of line
1117265.pl has too many errors.
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Please see also perlrun and Perltidy.

This nodes might also be helpful:

• Re: Matching a Word Exactly
• Re^2: Formatting Perl code with Emacs
• Re: Concatenating strings with different length

Best regards, Karl