$ perl -c crates syntax error at crates line 7, near "foreach @line " crates had compilation errors. $ perl -Mdiagnostics -c crates syntax error at crates line 7, near "foreach @line " crates had compilation errors (#1) (F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include: A keyword is misspelled. A semicolon is missing. A comma is missing. An opening or closing parenthesis is missing. An opening or closing brace is missing. A closing quote is missing. Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on -w.) The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input. Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call perl -c repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20 questions>. Uncaught exception from user code: syntax error at crates line 7, near "foreach @line " crates had compilation errors. at crates line 10. #### $ perldoc perlintro | grep foreach the more friendly list scanning "foreach" loop. foreach foreach (@array) { print $list[$_] foreach 0 .. $max; foreach my $key (keys %hash) { $ perldoc perlsyn | grep foreach foreach LIST The "foreach" modifier is an iterator: it executes the statement once print "Hello $_!\n" foreach qw(world Dolly nurse); LABEL foreach VAR (LIST) BLOCK LABEL foreach VAR (LIST) BLOCK continue BLOCK The "foreach" loop iterates over a normal list value and sets the loop. This implicit localization occurs *only* in a "foreach" loop. The "foreach" keyword is actually a synonym for the "for" keyword, so you can use "foreach" for readability or "for" for brevity. (Or because "foreach" loop index variable is an implicit alias for each item in the If any part of LIST is an array, "foreach" will get very confused if you "foreach" probably won't do what you expect if VAR is a tied or other foreach $item (split(/:[\\\n:]*/, $ENV{TERMCAP})) { Perl executes a "foreach" statement more rapidly than it would the Instead of using "given()", you can use a "foreach()" loop. For example, requires initialization, such as a subroutine or a "foreach" loop. It #### $ perl -c crates Global symbol "$line" requires explicit package name at crates line 7. crates had compilation errors. #### $ perl -c crates crates syntax OK