in reply to "Unrecognized character" stops perl cold
I was using Perl for the first time on Mac using the TextEdit editor. Really frustrating, until I read this and worked out that it uses
Edit->Substitutions->Smart Quotes
the quote characters not being as expected by the interpreter.Switch this off and all is OK.
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Re^2: "Unrecognized character" stops perl cold
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 21, 2015 at 13:17 UTC | |
Re^2: "Unrecognized character" stops perl cold
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 04, 2015 at 18:41 UTC |
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