I am getting this message and I'm not sure why. Can someone explain this? Is perl 5.6 complaining that the "my" does not start with a "$" character?

Missing $ on loop variable at /home/chad/bin/tee-err-warn.pl line 40.

Line 40 has a foreach loop.
    # find lines with keywords
    foreach my $i (@keywords) {     ## -- LINE 40 --

        if($line =~ m/$i/i) {

            # copy found lines to the found lines array
            push @found , $line;
        }
    }

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The error only shows up on a solaris 2.5 machine, "v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris". It does not show up on a hand full of other machines:

I tried moving the "my $i" to it's own line and the error went away.
    # find lines with keywords
    my $i;
    foreach $i (@keywords) {     ## -- now LINE 41 --

        if($line =~ m/$i/i) {

            # copy found lines to the found lines array
            push @found , $line;
        }
    }

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In reply to Missing $ on loop variable by superfrink

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