To your general question: put in use diagnostics; at the top of your script to get nice, long, explanatory error messages. Great help when starting out.

Other advice: put use strict up there ALWAYS, and add a -w to the command line, the latter especially when developing.

As to the specific error ... it SOUNDS like the problem's in the module code ... but I can't comment on that directly. Check to make sure you typed the code in correctly.

Also: what is line #4 (the one reported as containing the error ?). Knowing that can go a long way to helping out with this one.

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In reply to Re: Understanding errors by arturo
in thread Understanding errors by carson894

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