Learned monks, I have a subroutines file separate from my main program. It is pulled into "main.pl" with a "require subs.pl". When trying to run the program, I am told that there is a missing right curly or square bracket in the subs.pl at EOF. Obviously I have looked for this error, and in my wisdom I decided to comment out different subroutines to nail down which one was the offender. This provided no illumination, so I thought I'd comment out the whole file with POD directives so that all that remained was the "1;", at the end of the file. running the syntax checker on this then threw up the same error. How can this be, since there is now no useable code in the subroutines file.

In reply to Missing bracket? by Anonymous Monk

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