in reply to help with (what I consider) a strange problem

Thank you all for your help. I apologize for neglecting to use perldoc
My code is now: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::Bastardize;

chomp(my $line = <>);
my $latin = Text::Bastardize->new();
$latin->charge($line);
print $latin->pig(),"\n"

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Which works perfectly :)

update: removed unecessary `$_' assignment. Thanks danger :)

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Re: Re: help with (what I consider) a strange problem
by chipmunk (Parson) on Mar 19, 2001 at 08:17 UTC
    I can't figure out why that code even compiles. Assigning to chomp should result in the following error: Can't modify scalar safe chop in scalar assignment... But, this error doesn't occur when assigning to chomp if the argument to chomp is an assignment from a filehandle read. Some sort of obscure parsing bug...

    Here's what your code should look like: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Text::Bastardize;

chomp(my $line = <>);
my $latin = Text::Bastardize->new();
$latin->charge($line);
print $latin->pig(),"\n";

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