in reply to help with basic script

> 
($year, $month, $day = get_date;   
#                   ^ there

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does closing the parens help? :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^2: help with basic script
by eddiemo (Novice) on May 28, 2019 at 21:39 UTC

    Thank you Thank you Thank you! I'm torn between "thst's it"! and "that's it?!Rookie mistake - thanks for catching it!

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