Hi Monks,
this probably has an obvious answer but I have not being programming with perl long so I'd appeal for your patience.

I've recently (today) started working with GD::Graph. One of the first things I did was to take the sample program from the man page and try and run it. However it won't compile. I've copied it exactly from the man page and have read through man page to see if I could see if it was wrong but it seems ok. Maybe somebody out here can tell me what's wrong.

Heres's my code

use GD::Graph;

my @data = (
    ["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th","8th", "9th"],
    [    1,    2,    5,    6,    3,  1.5,    1,     3,     4],
    [ sort { $a <=> $b } (1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1.5, 1, 3, 4) ]
    );



  my $graph = GD::Graph::lines->new(400, 300);


  $graph->set(
      x_label           => 'X Label',
      y_label           => 'Y label',
      title             => 'Some simple graph',
      y_max_value       => 8,
      y_tick_number     => 8,
      y_label_skip      => 2
  );

  my $gd = my $my_graph->plot(\@data);
  open(IMG, '>file.gif') or die $!;
  binmode IMG;
  print IMG $gd->gif;

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And here's the error

 Can't locate object method "new" via package "GD::Graph::lines" at first.pl line 12.

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