Yo Monks!

I've got a bit of code that I have to move to a new machine. On the new machine, when it runs, it gives the following error message: 

Can't call method "our" on an undefined value at tpl.pl line 61.

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line 58-63: 

## fills in the template - in this case it will likely be a form
sub assigntags {
        my @tags = @_;
        our $show_fields;

        my %tagvals = ();

        foreach $tag (@tags) {
        ...

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The "our $show_fields;" is the problem.

The version of perl that the code was developed with and runs on is 5.6.1 for sun4-solaris. The destination machine has perl version 5.005_03 for sun4-solaris.

My question is this: I have very little understanding of scoping and the (deprecated) use of the our keyword, but I need to get this code runnin on 5.005_03. Can anyone offer some explanation and advice?

Thanks,

Chris

In reply to Error message when using 'our' by alienhuman

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