I am very green when it comes to PERL. I have been reading a book "Windows NT: Win32 PERL Programming" by Dave Roth. I typed in an example that uses the getgroups() from AdminMisc module. It gives me the following error message and I do not know how to get past it. Below is the code and error message. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.<PB> Thanks 
use Win32::AdminMisc;

$Machine = "\\\\KO-GTS-W8ZHNC4";
if( Win32::AdminMisc::GetGroups( $Machine, GROUP_TYPE_GLOBAL, \@List )
+ )
{
    print "The global groups are:\n";
    map { print "\t$_\n";} @List;
}

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<PB> String found where operator expected at ..\..\lib\POSIX.pm (autosplit into ..\..\lib\auto/POSIX/getgroups.al) line 57, near "usage "getgroups()"" (Do you need to predeclare usage?) syntax error at F:\perl\gg3.pl line 4

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