Did you copy and paste the code? Because it sounds like you missed a comma. (i.e. you have print SCALAR "\n"; in place of print SCALAR, "\n";). If not, your copy of Params::Validate was not correctly built. I just downloaded v0.95 from CPAN and have no problem, using the pure Perl version. You may wish to try downloading the tarball from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/D/DR/DROLSKY/Params-Validate-0.95.tar.gz, expanding it and copying Params-Validate-0.95/lib/Params/Validate.pm and Params-Validate-0.95/lib/Params/ValidatePP.pm into C:\Perl\site\lib\Params, deleting ValidateXS.pm and Validate.xs while you are there. Once this is done, try the script again.

In reply to Re^5: Bareword "SCALAR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at C:/Perl/site/lib/DateTime/Locale.pm line 41. by kennethk
in thread Bareword "SCALAR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at C:/Perl/site/lib/DateTime/Locale.pm line 41. by nocool

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