Re: Need help with badwords routine

As above, upgrade to Perl5 syntax:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
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Don't use '&' to call a sub, that's deprecated, basically now means a ref-to-sub.

To access/assign 1 element of an array, don't use

    @vars[0] = $name;
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use

    $vars[0] = $name;
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Re^2: Need help with badwords routine by tinita (Parson) on Oct 21, 2008 at 08:56 UTC
Don't use '&' to call a sub, that's deprecated, basically now means a ref-to-sub. That's wrong. It's deprecated, but: `\&foo` is a reference to the sub foo. `&foo` is a call to the sub foo which circumvents prototypes, and additionally because of the lack of parentheses it gives the current @_ as an argument to foo.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Need help with badwords routine by chrism01 (Friar) on Oct 21, 2008 at 07:02 UTC
Darn, no edit facility. Anyway, amend `open(BADWORDS,"$badword_file");` [download] to `open(BADWORDS,"<","$badword_file") or die "Unable to open badword_ +file: $! \n";` [download] or similar	[reply] [d/l] [select]