While drifting around the Monastery I read some mention of the Config module. Since I had not looked at it before I decided to check it out. To cut to the chase I found a sample program in the module and decided to run it. I copied it to gedit, saved it and ran it as follows:

perl -c configure.pl (My name for the program, of course.)

I got the following response:

Unrecognized character \xE2 at configure.pl line 12.

Of course I looked at the program again and saw no srange characters. I have left out the shebang line and a comment line at the top of the program. Here is the program:

           use Config;
           use strict;
 
           my %sig_num;
           my @sig_name;
           unless($Config{sig_name} && $Config{sig_num}) {
               die "No sigs?";
           } else {
               my @names = split \’ \’, $Config{sig_name};
               @sig_num{@names} = split \’ \’,   $Config{sig_num};
               foreach (@names) {
                   $sig_name[$sig_num{$_}] \|\|= $_;
               }
           }
                                                                      
+          
           print "signal #17 = $sig_name[17]\n";
           if ($sig_num{ALRM}) {
               print "SIGALRM is $sig_num{ALRM}\n";
           }

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Sorry, this software program seems unable to print single quotes and pipes properly. My question then, is how do I locate this mysterious character? I realize that I could probably just delete the line and re-type it, but I would rather fix the problem. Besides, next time it might be something serious.

Thanks,

xenchu

Update: Thanks pg, let me give that a try...whoa! that compiles! That's great! How did you find out what the strange characters were? I am using 5.8.0 btw.

Update2:Thanks, ysth. Another valuable lesson learned.

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