(F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and returns
no useful value. See L<perlmod>.
+=item '!' allowed only after types %s
+
+(F) The '!' is allowed in pack() and unpack() only after certain types.
+See L<perlfunc/pack>.
+
=item % may only be used in unpack
(F) You can't pack a string by supplying a checksum, because the
checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other
way. See L<perlfunc/unpack>.
+=item /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through
+
+(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
+by Perl. This combination appears in an interpolated variable or a
+C<'>-delimited regular expression.
+
=item %s (...) interpreted as function
(W) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator followed
=item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
(F) With "strict subs" in use, a bareword is only allowed as a
-subroutine identifier, in curly braces or to the left of the "=>" symbol.
+subroutine identifier, in curly brackets or to the left of the "=>" symbol.
Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine?
=item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package
(F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory
that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist.
+=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s"
+
+(P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for nosuid.
+
=item Can't coerce %s to integer in %s
(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries
Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the
lexical variable.
+=item Bad evalled substitution pattern
+
+(F) You've used the /e switch to evaluate the replacement for a
+substitution, but perl found a syntax error in the code to evaluate,
+most likely an unexpected right brace '}'.
+
=item Can't use %s for loop variable
(F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a foreach.
(F) You tried to divide a number by 0 to get the remainder. Most numbers
don't take to this kindly.
-=item Illegal octal digit
+=item Illegal binary digit %s
+
+(F) You used a digit other than 0 and 1 in a binary number.
+
+=item Illegal octal digit %s
(F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
-=item Illegal octal digit ignored
+=item Illegal binary digit %s ignored
+
+(W) You may have tried to use a digit other than 0 or 1 in a binary number.
+Interpretation of the binary number stopped before the offending digit.
+
+=item Illegal octal digit %s ignored
(W) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number. Interpretation
of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
-=item Illegal hex digit ignored
+=item Illegal hex digit %s ignored
(W) You may have tried to use a character other than 0 - 9 or A - F in a
hexadecimal number. Interpretation of the hexadecimal number stopped
potentially supplied) by the user. The script must set the path to a
known value, using trustworthy data. See L<perlsec>.
-=item Integer overflow in hex number
-
-(S) The literal hex number you have specified is too big for your
-architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest hex literal is
-0xFFFFFFFF.
-
-=item Integer overflow in octal number
+=item Integer overflow in %s number
-(S) The literal octal number you have specified is too big for your
-architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest octal literal is
-037777777777.
+(S) The literal hex, octal or binary number you have specified is
+too big for your architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest
+literal hex, octal or binary number representable without overflow
+is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or 0b11111111111111111111111111111111
+respectively. Note that Perl transparently promotes decimal literals
+to a floating point representation internally--subject to loss of
+precision errors in subsequent operations--so this limit usually
+doesn't apply to decimal literals.
=item Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks
(F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an
"indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them.
+=item Missing command in piped open
+
+(W) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or C<open(FH, "command |")>
+construction, but the command was missing or blank.
+
=item Missing operator before %s?
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s
found where operator expected". Often the missing operator is a comma.
-=item Missing right bracket
+=item Missing right curly or square bracket
-(F) The lexer counted more opening curly brackets (braces) than closing ones.
-As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place you were last
-editing.
+(F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than
+closing ones. As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place
+you were last editing.
=item Modification of a read-only value attempted
(P) A "can't happen" error, because safemalloc() should have caught it earlier.
-=item regexp too big
-
-(F) The current implementation of regular expressions uses shorts as
-address offsets within a string. Unfortunately this means that if
-the regular expression compiles to longer than 32767, it'll blow up.
-Usually when you want a regular expression this big, there is a better
-way to do it with multiple statements. See L<perlre>.
-
=item Reversed %s= operator
(W) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The = must always
server can't find it, basically, more or less. Please see the following
for more information:
- http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/idiots-guide.html
- http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/perl-cgi-faq.html
+ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html
+ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
+You should also look at L<perlfaq9>.
+
=item setegid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to C<$)>, and your operating system doesn't support
expressions. If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for finding
the matching parenthesis. See L<perlre>.
-=item Unmatched right bracket
+=item Unmatched right %s bracket
-(F) The lexer counted more closing curly brackets (braces) than opening
-ones, so you're probably missing an opening bracket. As a general
-rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place you were
-last editing.
+(F) The lexer counted more closing curly or square brackets than
+opening ones, so you're probably missing a matching opening bracket.
+As a general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the
+place you were last editing.
=item unmatched [] in regexp
in your Perl script (or eval). Perhaps you tried to run a compressed
script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
+=item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through
+
+(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
+by Perl.
+
=item Unrecognized signal name "%s"
(F) You specified a signal name to the kill() function that was not recognized.