ActivePerl 5.6.1.630 - echo problem

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Hello Guys just installed ActivePerl 5.6.1.630, and when i tried to execute any of my scripts i was getting errors, so decided to make a simple test script:

echo "test";
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And i keep getting this error:

String found where operator expected at C:\Dev\test.pl line 1, near "e
+cho "test"
"
        (Do you need to predeclare echo?)
syntax error at C:\Dev\test.pl line 1, near "echo "test""
Execution of C:\Dev\test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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Thank You very much

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Re: ActivePerl 5.6.1.630 - echo problem by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2001 at 20:53 UTC
I think you may have been brainwashed by PHP as `echo` isn't in Perl, you'll be wanting `print`. The error is caused by perl guessing that `echo` is a function, and since it's behaviour isn't defined (i.e no function defintion) it `croaks`. HTH broquaint	[reply]
Re: ActivePerl 5.6.1.630 - echo problem by thunders (Priest) on Nov 10, 2001 at 01:41 UTC
You can put this sub in all of your scripts `sub echo{ my $echo = join "", @_; print $echo; }` [download] Should clear up that problem. Seriously, print does every thing that php's print and echo do put together, multiple arguments, here docs, variable interpolation. Even the nearly useless return value. see `perldoc -f print`	[reply] [d/l] [select]