In looking at your code, the first thing I noticed was your line 3:

my $text, $ques, $ans;

Right away you should have gotten an error about globals needing explicit package name. To declare multiple variables you need to enclose them in parenthese:

my ($text, $ques, $ans);

The same problem exists on line 20:

my $another_line, $one, $two;

Next, you have:

sub $do_one_thing{...;

which is also an error. You need to remove the sigils from this and the subsequent sub.

From what you've shown, I can't imagine this program producing any output.


In reply to Re: Why is this incorrect? by spiritway
in thread Why is this incorrect? by kettle

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