I am a very new Perl user using Mac OS X 10.6.3 and running Perl 5.10.0.

I'm trying to use the "mechanize" module for data collection. I downloaded and installed this module using CPAN ($perl -MCPAN -e shell). Now the "use warnings" and "use strict" commands don't appear to be working. I start in Terminal with:

$which perl

/usr/bin/perl

$perl -v

$use strict;

-bash: use: command not found

$use warnings;

-bash: use: command not found

Any idea as to why this is happening and/or what I can do to get these commands to work would be very helpful.

In reply to "Use strict" and "Use warnings" not working by Anonymous Monk

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