Hi, I have been receiving this error and I do not see what is wrong. Can't modify constant item in addition (+) at Y:\Perl2\GSI.pl line 216, near "}" Execution of Y:\Perl2\GSI.pl aborted due to compilation errors. This is my code: 
my ($alarmed,$flawed,$inspected);
    
    open (FILE2, "<$path2") or die "Cannot open $path2";
    $record2 = <FILE2>; #skip first line
    while ($record2 = <FILE2>){
            my @temporary = split(",",$record2);
            if ($temporary[4] eq "alarmed")
            {
                alarmed += $temporary[5] ### ERROR LINE ###
                #print "$temporary[5]\n";
            }
    }
    close(FILE2);

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I do not see why as I did not declare 'alarmed' as a constant. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks you!

In reply to HELP!!! Can't modify constant item in addition (+) at ..... by francisongsw

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