use strict;

snowrider has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

monks, I am a very new perl programmer and i do not understand why i am getting errors when i use strict; i am tring to run a very simple program just by typing the program name on the command line and i get

"use" may clash with future reserved word at day1_test.1.pl line 3.
syntax error in file day1_test.1.pl at line 3, next 2 tokens "use stri
+ct"
"my" may clash with future reserved word at day1_test.1.pl line 7.
"my" may clash with future reserved word at day1_test.1.pl line 8.
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if i type perl program_name on the command line the program works just fine is this normal behavior? any help would be appreciated thanks, snowrider

Edit: 2001-03-03 by neshura

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