comments break my code

arcnon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

a module I wrote breaks when I add a comment line

if I place '# test' anywhere inside my module I get :

Tester/Test.pm did not return a true value at ./t.pl line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./t.pl line 7.

I have the '1;' at the end of the module. I can also comment the script that calls the module with no problems. I have never had anything like this happen before and has taken 6 hours just to find out what was causing my error.

If I remove the comment it works fine.

running perl This is perl, v5.8.6 built for darwin

Can someone please help me!

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Re: comments break my code by Tanktalus (Canon) on Nov 19, 2005 at 16:55 UTC
arcnon, it would be extremely helpful if you could show a piece of code the replicates the problem. Off the top of my head, you may be using a source filter, even if you don't realise that you are (what modules are you useing inside this module?).	[reply]
Re^2: comments break my code by arcnon (Monk) on Nov 19, 2005 at 17:04 UTC
this is it t.pl `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; use Tester::Test; Tester::Test->test();` [download] Test.pm `package Tester::Test; use strict; sub test{ print "test"; } #test 1; __END__` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: comments break my code by simonm (Vicar) on Nov 19, 2005 at 17:09 UTC
If you're editing files on Windows and running them on a Mac, you might need to check your line endings -- is there a real carriage-return between the comment and the "1;" line? -Simon	[reply]
Re^4: comments break my code by arcnon (Monk) on Nov 19, 2005 at 17:14 UTC
Re^5: comments break my code by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 19, 2005 at 20:25 UTC
Re^5: comments break my code by spiritway (Vicar) on Nov 20, 2005 at 08:00 UTC
Re^3: comments break my code by fmerges (Chaplain) on Nov 20, 2005 at 12:27 UTC
Hi, A thing that has nothing to do with your problem, but I won't use the indirect method call when you're not dealing with OO. Tester::Test->test() Because that way your first argument in the @_ array will be the Package name 'Tester::Test'. Use the normal method Tester::Test::test() or use the Exporter module to import the subroutines into your namespace. Tester::Test.pm `package Tester::Test; use strict; use Exporter qw/ import /; our @EXPORT_OK = qw/ test /; sub test{ print "test"; } 1;` [download] t.pl `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; use Tester::Test qw/test/; # if you want to import it into your namesp +ace Tester::Test::test(); # or directly test() if you have imported it exit;` [download] Regards, \|fire\| at irc.freenode.net	[reply] [d/l] [select]