compilation errors

[altaratz]

I'm pretty new to Perl, and I thought I wrote an airtight script - (database query), however, when I use my perl interperter, I keep getting ".cgi has compilation errors" - anyone have any idea about what constitutes a compilation error, usually?

Thanks, Ethan Altaratz

 

[tsdragon]

It could be any number of things, here's a common few:

Punctuation (this is most likely). Look for missing curly brackets on if and for statements, missing parens on function calls, missing quotes on strings, missing semicolons.

Mispelled function name, subroutine name or variable name.

Required file not found.
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[pgmm]

run the programme with -w switch enables, this will give a more complete report of where the erro lies followed by "aborted due to compilation errors"
Regards