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Re: Explanation of 'use strict;' by friedo (Prior) on Jan 11, 2005 at 21:23 UTC
You're getting that error because you're defining a package-global variable ($name) which is not allowed under `strict`. (Well, it's allowed, but it requires an explicit package name, which probably does not surprise you.) The way to do what you want is to create a lexical variable with `my`. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; print "Hello, I am Komodo what is your name? "; my $name = <STDIN>; chomp $name; print "Hello, $name!\n";` [download] For more, see Coping with Scoping. Required reading for all n00bz.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Explanation of 'use strict;'
by friedo (Prior) on Jan 11, 2005 at 21:23 UTC

strict

The way to do what you want is to create a lexical variable with my.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use strict; 
print "Hello, I am Komodo what is your name? "; 
my $name = <STDIN>; 
chomp $name; 
print "Hello, $name!\n";
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For more, see Coping with Scoping. Required reading for all n00bz.

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