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From: sfrazier@cs.ulowell.edu (Scott Frazier)
Subject: Library Difficulties
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Hi,

	I'm trying to pull functions out of perl code and throw them into
a library.  Unfortunately, I've never been able to successfully do this
even though I've read what the Camel book has to say on the subject.
If anyone could tell me what's wrong with this, I'd really appreciate it.
Both files were in the same directory.  It looks like the perl
interpreter is trying to execute the subroutine as a command, IE: "sh:
sub: not found" or something similar.

**** Driver  ***

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

unshift(@INC,'.');

require `genDate.pl`;

$date = &genDate;
print "Gendate returned $date\n";

**** genDate.pl ***

sub genDate
{
    %months = (
	       'Jan', '01',
	       'Feb', '02',
	       'Mar', '03',
	       'Apr', '04',
	       'May', '05',
	       'Jun', '06',
	       'Jul', '07',
	       'Aug', '08',
	       'Sep', '09',
	       'Oct', '10',
	       'Nov', '11',
	       'Dec', '12',);
    chop($date=`date`);
    $date =~ /(\w+) (\w+) (\w+) (\w+:\w+:\w+) (\w+) (\w+)/;
    $_ = join('/', $months{$2}, $3, substr($6,2,2));
}

1;



						Thanks in advance,
								-Scott

--

Scott W. Frazier                                sfrazier@cs.ulowell.edu
Systems Office, x3636				sfrazier@dragon.cpe.ulowell.edu



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In article <SFRAZIER.93Jun21153736@cs.ulowell.edu> sfrazier@cs.ulowell.edu (Scott Frazier) writes:
: require `genDate.pl`;

Change those to forward quotes and it should work much better.

Larry