I am trying to run a script that I got from a book. I typed it myself from the book, using Notepad, and then save it as a .pl file.

When I tried to execute it, I got the following error:

syntax error at file.pl line 26, near "{ else" syntax error at file.pl line 30, near "}" Execution of file.pl aborted due to compliation errors.

Lines 18-34 are:

if ($res->is_success) {</br>
            my $fh = new FileHandle ">$filename";
            if (defined $fh) {
                print $fh $res->content;
                $fh->close;
            } else {
                print STDERR "could not open file $filename: $!\n";
            }
        {
        else }
            print STDERR $res->status_line, "\n";
        }
    }
}

$station = 'mn';
for ($year = 00; $year <= 04; $year++) {
    my $filename = '200' . $year . $station . 'zip';

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I will say that I am new to Perl, but having gotten this directly from the book, I wasn't thinking I needed to be a master. After some initial research, I inserted  use Diagnostics; at the top, but I got the same error.

Any idea what this means? In the perldiag documentation, it just says that this message means the execution ended, but I kinda figured that much. If there's somewhere else I can go to do my own research, just point me in that direction, and I'll take it from there.

Thanks!

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