Arthur S. Alexion on Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:19:17 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] OT: Perl question


On Thursday 19 September 2002 12:14 pm, Stephen Brown wrote:
> 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).

Since the character was a non-breaking space, I couldn't see the 
problem in line 22.  My erroneous guess was base on the fact that the 
22nd line after the code started used `` instead of the double quote 
(") and I thought that mi8ght be the problem.
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