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>> "Transliteration replacement not terminated" (Ton> Basically, don't give your functions names of perl operators to avoid (Ton> confusion (don't name them "y", "s", "q" or "m" for the single letters)) OK, the error messages should perhaps mention what letter was bothering them, instead of hoping we on the spot will remember that y is an alias for tr which stands for Transliteration. The user was thinking "I'll plot y as a function of x", and could not tell from the message what went wrong, especially as it is all on one line being from a makefile. Indeed, I bet if line numbers were removed, perl error messages would lose to gawk in terms of clarity. Gawk often points out just where things went wrong, with a ^.Thread Previous | Thread Next