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teishu · Jun 13th, 2007, 4:11 PM

hi, just learning perl can someone tell me whats wrong with this:

print "The months of the year are: \n";
@months = ("January \n", "Febuary \n", "March \n", "April \n", "and so on... \n")
for $i (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) {
	print "@months \n";
	}

i get this error:

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teishu@debian:~/prl$ perl months.pl
syntax error at months.pl line 5, near "$i ("
Execution of months.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

thanks

Jun 13th, 2007, 4:11 PM	#1
teishu Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 51 Rep Power: 3	small error.. hi, just learning perl can someone tell me whats wrong with this: (Toggle Plain Text) print "The months of the year are: \n"; @months = ("January \n", "Febuary \n", "March \n", "April \n", "and so on... \n") for $i (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) { print "@months \n"; } print "The months of the year are: \n"; @months = ("January \n", "Febuary \n", "March \n", "April \n", "and so on... \n") for $i (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) { print "@months \n"; } i get this error: (Toggle Plain Text) teishu@debian:~/prl$ perl months.pl syntax error at months.pl line 5, near "$i (" Execution of months.pl aborted due to compilation errors. teishu@debian:~/prl$ perl months.pl syntax error at months.pl line 5, near "$i (" Execution of months.pl aborted due to compilation errors. thanks __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4200+ -- Asus V3-M2V890 -- 2GB Kingston -- Vista Ultimate 32bit + Ubuntu 8.04 Intel C2D T5870 2.0GHZ -- Vostro 1510 -- 2048MB -- Windows XP SP2 *ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !*