Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question

[Stephen Brown <sbrown@cubehost.net>]

Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
>>Now, I
> am getting the error
>   Unrecognized character \xA0 at install.pl line 22.
> As line 22 has nothing unusual in it, I am wondering whether Perl skips 
> comments at the begining of a script in calculating the line number?

No, unless they are doing something special it is actual line number in 
the file. (They can create dynamic code and then eval it in which case 
the error would be based on the lines in the dynamic code).

> Any ideas what character \xA0 might be?

It is something non-ascii - if it is and escape code in a string in the 
code, then
the author might have intended to have 0x0A (LF a.k.a. \n) instead.

If you have hexedit or emacs with hex mode on your system open it with 
that and poke around, probably the file got corrupted somewhere along 
the line.

Steve

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