Jeff Weisberg on Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:40:19 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question


| I am trying to install some software that uses the perl 5 interpreter.  
| I don't know any perl, and the program came with an install script that 
| downloads, installs and configures the modules it needs to run.  There 
| was a problem with the script, so the author sent me a new one.  Now, I 
| am getting the error
|   Unrecognized character \xA0 at install.pl line 22.
| As line 22 has nothing unusual in it,

as far you can see, anyway...

| I am wondering whether Perl skips 
| comments at the begining of a script in calculating the line number?

no. it counts them all.

| Any ideas what character \xA0 might be?

on my system it looks exactly like a space.

for insight, try:
	sed -n 22l install.pl



	--jeff

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