I do know some perl, and this is a project i've been working on for some time. The compiler and komodo tell me there is a error on line 140, namely "Useless use of private variable in void context at #PATH#/main.pl line 140." It is a sub, called only once. I am running it in -w mode. 
# Called as: my @ch_refnums = &findTickers($file_cont, $anndate);
sub findTickers {
    my ($file, $ann_date) = @_;
    
    my $match;
    my $max_month = 0;
    my $max_year = 0;

    @temp = split (/\//, $ann_date);
    my $month = $temp[0];
    my $day = $temp[1];
    my $year = $temp[2];

    if ($month => 10)  {
        $max_month = $month-9;
        $max_year = $year+1;
    }
    elsif ($month < 10) {
        $max_month = $month+3;
    }

==> if ($max_year > 1900)    {    # Error occurrs here.
    $match = "[$month-$max_month][\/][1-3]?[0-9][$year|$max_year]" ;
    }
    else    {
        $match = "[$month-$max_month][\/][1-3]?[0-9][$year]" ;
    }
}

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There is more to the sub and prog. However, I think it is somewhere here that the error is actually occurring. This error does not appear to be fatal, but i would want to know why it occurs... Thanks! Jon

In reply to Unknown problem, throws "Useless use of privt var in void contxt" by S0ci1_Hak0n

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