Thanks, but do bear in mind, I already know the error, and I fixed it.

This question has nothing to do with the syntax error, it is about trying to understand a diagnostic message, in order to gain wisdom.

I ran deparse, and it printed my code prepended with the word LINE: and followed it with a diagnostic saying the syntax was OK.

$ perl -MO=Deparse -p strip_keys.pl 

LINE: while (defined($_ = <ARGV>)) {
    use warnings;
    use strict 'refs';
    our($opt_h, $opt_k, $opt_u);
    my($inline, $device, $config, $file, $context, @contexts);
    use Getopt::Long;
    &help unless GetOptions 'h', \$opt_h, 'u:s', \$opt_u, 'k:s', \$opt
+_k, 'device:s', \$device;
    &help if $opt_h;
   etc.

continue {
    print $_;
}

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strip_keys.pl syntax OK

In reply to Re^2: Why is the error thrown from close(FH) when the error is the missing <> on while(FH)? by techgrrl
in thread Why is the error thrown from close(FH) when the error is the missing <> on while(FH)? by techgrrl

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