First troubleshooting step is to add strictand warnings: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Getopt::Long;

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This identified several problems. The first one is:

S:\Steve\PerlMonks>perl .\tparse.pl --platform=1 --version=E48.1
Bareword found where operator expected at .\tparse.pl line 25, near "$
+version will"
        (Missing operator before will?)

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Something's wrong on line 25. After my additions noted above, lines 22-26 are:

     if (!defined($version))
     {
          Find version number!!
          $version = E . "$valuefind"; ($version will be E48.2)
     }

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My guesses:

  1. Find version number!! is presumably meant to be a comment. (As posted, it's not one.)
  2.  $version = E . "$valuefined";is probably meant to put a literal 'E' into the result. I'm old-fashioned; I'd put quotes around it.
  3.  $valuefindis not defined anywhere, yet you appear to be trying to reference it.
  4.  ($version will be E48.2)is presumably mean to be a comment. (As posted, it's not one.)

In reply to Re: Script failed with certain value in the variable by marinersk
in thread Script failed with certain value in the variable by mamoru0916

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