I see part of the problem already with the text of the error message you posted.

Your @INC (the array of directories to search for libraries) includes libraries from three different perl installations

  1. /etrade/pkgs/perl/5.8.0_crm/
  2. /usr/perl5/5.00503/
  3. /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/

It looks to me like:

Check the output of perl -V.

I recommend asking your sysadmin for help getting the perl environment straightened out.

If that doesn't work, try starting another thread asking for help on specifically this problem. Include the output of perl -V in your post.

You really do want to use strict and warnings. Also, diagnostics is handy when you are starting out.


TGI says moo


In reply to Re^5: perl typecasting by TGI
in thread perl typecasting by perl_junkie

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