Hey all. I got stuck on a quetion in "Intermediate Perl" by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d, foy & Tom Phoenix. So I went over the answer in the back.

I am pretty sure I understand how the problem is supposed to work but I don't quit understand why the code won't run on my machine. Can anyone enlighten me?

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#distlog.pl

use strict;
use IO::File;
my %output_handles;
while  (<>) {
        unless (/^(\S+):/) {
                warn "ignoring the line with missing name: $_";
                next;
        }
        my $name = lc $1;
        my $handle = $output_handles{$name} ||=
IO::File->open(">$name.info") || die "Cannot create $name.info: $!";
        print $handle $_;
}

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Error:
Can't use string ("IO::File") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in u
+se at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/IO/File.pm lin
+e 188, <> line 1.

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Thanks,

-Actualize

In reply to Chapter 8 of intermediate perl by actualize

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