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in thread perl eval

Oh - sorry - I should test my postings. You're not running with warnings, otherwise, you would have seen the following warning:

> perl -w tmp.pl
main::egal() called too early to check prototype at ..\tmp.pl line 3.

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What I meant to post was this: 

#my $param = 'egal("7006","7006")';
#eval print $param;

sub egal () {
};

egal("7006","7006");

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which outputs

> perl -w tmp.pl
Too many arguments for main::egal at ..\tmp.pl line 7, near ""7006")"
Execution of ..\tmp.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Which is what also happens in your eval but which you never output because you never check for that. See previous posts on what to do.

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Re^10: perl eval
by paribasu (Initiate) on Jul 06, 2010 at 07:40 UTC

    At last after a long fight I figured it out. It was due to defining the egal sub which is like: 

    sub egal () {
     # ....
}

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    # Rather than: 

    sub egal {
     # ....
}

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    This was imposing argument prototypes on egal (i.e. no args). This was the reason why Perl can't find the sub when an argument is passed.

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