Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin

Krishna05 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks! I've just started learning perl yesterday so this is probably newbie question. I'm trying to run the following basic code on Cygwin but it gives me errors.


#!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Array Sample \n"
my @arrayone = ("String :","Hello","Number :",555);
print "$arrayone[0] $arrayone[1]\n";
print "$arrayone[2] $arrayone[3] \n";
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This is the error I get

syntax error at testarray.pl line 7, near "my "
Global symbol "@arrayone" requires explicit package name at testarray.
+pl line 7.
Global symbol "@arrayone" requires explicit package name at testarray.
+pl line 8.
Global symbol "@arrayone" requires explicit package name at testarray.
+pl line 8.
Global symbol "@arrayone" requires explicit package name at testarray.
+pl line 9.
Global symbol "@arrayone" requires explicit package name at testarray.
+pl line 9.
Execution of testarray.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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This works perfectly on my friend's Ubuntu but don't know why am I getting this error on Cygwin.

Ubuntu Virtual OS is very very slow on my Windows 7 so had to go with Cygwin.

Please guide me through if this isn't correct section to post ! Thank you!

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Re: Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin by farang (Chaplain) on Oct 05, 2013 at 02:09 UTC
Looks like a copying error rather than something specific to the operating system. You are missing a trailing semicolon: `print "Array Sample \n";`	[reply]
Re: Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin by boftx (Deacon) on Oct 05, 2013 at 02:11 UTC
The (maybe not so) obvious error is that you are missing a semi-colon (";") after this line in the code: `print "Array Sample \n"` [download] I don't see how it would have run on Ubuntu without it, so I can only surmise that you typed in by hand instead of doing a copy/paste on your Cygwin box and left it out by mistake. On time, cheap, compliant with final specs. Pick two.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin by Krishna05 (Initiate) on Oct 05, 2013 at 02:43 UTC
Hi! Thank you both for the reply! You were right. I didn't check a semi-colon was missing there. Was so dumb! Lesson learned.	[reply]
Re^3: Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin by boftx (Deacon) on Oct 05, 2013 at 02:49 UTC
You're welcome! Rule of thumb, if you see a string of error messages that you just know don't make any sense, check the line before the first one listed to see if you left out a semi-colon. We all make this mistake, even after as many years as I have in this game. :) On time, cheap, compliant with final specs. Pick two.	[reply]
Re: Simple perl Code runs on Ubuntu but gives errors on Cygwin by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 05, 2013 at 11:16 UTC
Before you get more experienced, you might like to add `use diagnostics;` [download] to the top of the script. In this particular case, it would add the following to the report: (F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include: A keyword is misspelled. A semicolon is missing. A comma is missing. An opening or closing parenthesis is missing. An opening or closing brace is missing. A closing quote is missing. Often there will be another error message associated with the synt +ax error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on -w. +) The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line +when it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several toke +ns before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input. Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue + moon the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call perl -c repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to se +e if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of 20 ques +tions. [download] See diagnostics. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]