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Jim Cochrane  
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 More options Apr 24 2008, 1:24 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc
From: Jim Cochrane <allergic-to-s...@no-spam-allowed.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:24:29 +0200 (CEST)
Local: Thurs, Apr 24 2008 1:24 am
Subject: Re: The map function
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On 2008-04-23, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "JC" == Jim Cochrane <allergic-to-s...@no-spam-allowed.org> writes:

>  >> do you know which braces need a semicolon after?

>  JC> If I remember correctly, line 18 (from your error message) was either
>  JC> the offending line with the close curly brace missing the ';' or the
>  JC> line (print ...) below it.  So you know where to look because of the
>  JC> line # in the error message.  Of course, now that you know that 'do {}'
>  JC> blocks need a semicolon after them (right?), you know to look for that

> actually do blocks are just expressions and the statement they might be
> in will need a ; (and of course in perl ; is a statement separator and
> not a terminator). in this case the do block was the end of the
> statement and needed a ; before the print. an if block (or other flow
> control block isn't a statement so they don't need ; after them.

> uri

Thanks for the clarification.

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