I am not sure if this is the right place but ... it looked the nearest category - for example, it certainly ain't poetic!

It's hard to admit your wrong about something. But there are those things you just know you do wrong and have difficulty correcting. In the case of Perl programming, I feel sure there are others out there who recognise the "habitual error" in themselves and have to have a habit of looking for it to compensate e.g..

$hash1{ key1 }{ $hash2 { key2 }

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yep it's that second closing bracket after key2 -- now why do I always need the compiler to tell me this on line XXX further down and then have to go look for this ... of course I know me so I know I have to look for something like this. -- or perhaps for something similar with round brackets where the eye deceived just long enough for me to code on and have to find it later.

I wonder what habitual errors others want to share to get it out of their system.

-M

Free your mind

In reply to My habitual errors by Moron

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