in reply to Re^3: How do I find the missing curly brace??
in thread How do I find the missing curly brace??

But probably he can do a binary search by only compiling the first half of the source.
If it works add a quarter, otherwise subtract one.

You can do this easily by inserting '__END__' after a subroutine, then moving it up or down a few subroutines based on whether perl -c reported any errors.

90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒
dragonchild

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