| 1 | =head1 NAME |
| 2 | |
| 3 | perldiag - various Perl diagnostics |
| 4 | |
| 5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
| 6 | |
| 7 | These messages are classified as follows (listed in increasing order of |
| 8 | desperation): |
| 9 | |
| 10 | (W) A warning (optional). |
| 11 | (D) A deprecation (enabled by default). |
| 12 | (S) A severe warning (enabled by default). |
| 13 | (F) A fatal error (trappable). |
| 14 | (P) An internal error you should never see (trappable). |
| 15 | (X) A very fatal error (nontrappable). |
| 16 | (A) An alien error message (not generated by Perl). |
| 17 | |
| 18 | The majority of messages from the first three classifications above |
| 19 | (W, D & S) can be controlled using the C<warnings> pragma. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | If a message can be controlled by the C<warnings> pragma, its warning |
| 22 | category is included with the classification letter in the description |
| 23 | below. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | Optional warnings are enabled by using the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-w> |
| 26 | and B<-W> switches. Warnings may be captured by setting C<$SIG{__WARN__}> |
| 27 | to a reference to a routine that will be called on each warning instead |
| 28 | of printing it. See L<perlvar>. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Severe warnings are always enabled, unless they are explicitly disabled |
| 31 | with the C<warnings> pragma or the B<-X> switch. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | Trappable errors may be trapped using the eval operator. See |
| 34 | L<perlfunc/eval>. In almost all cases, warnings may be selectively |
| 35 | disabled or promoted to fatal errors using the C<warnings> pragma. |
| 36 | See L<warnings>. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | The messages are in alphabetical order, without regard to upper or |
| 39 | lower-case. Some of these messages are generic. Spots that vary are |
| 40 | denoted with a %s or other printf-style escape. These escapes are |
| 41 | ignored by the alphabetical order, as are all characters other than |
| 42 | letters. To look up your message, just ignore anything that is not a |
| 43 | letter. |
| 44 | |
| 45 | =over 4 |
| 46 | |
| 47 | =item accept() on closed socket %s |
| 48 | |
| 49 | (W closed) You tried to do an accept on a closed socket. Did you forget |
| 50 | to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 51 | L<perlfunc/accept>. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | =item Allocation too large: %x |
| 54 | |
| 55 | (X) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | =item '%c' allowed only after types %s |
| 58 | |
| 59 | (F) The modifiers '!', '<' and '>' are allowed in pack() or unpack() only |
| 60 | after certain types. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 61 | |
| 62 | =item Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use & |
| 63 | |
| 64 | (W ambiguous) A subroutine you have declared has the same name as a Perl |
| 65 | keyword, and you have used the name without qualification for calling |
| 66 | one or the other. Perl decided to call the builtin because the |
| 67 | subroutine is not imported. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | To force interpretation as a subroutine call, either put an ampersand |
| 70 | before the subroutine name, or qualify the name with its package. |
| 71 | Alternatively, you can import the subroutine (or pretend that it's |
| 72 | imported with the C<use subs> pragma). |
| 73 | |
| 74 | To silently interpret it as the Perl operator, use the C<CORE::> prefix |
| 75 | on the operator (e.g. C<CORE::log($x)>) or declare the subroutine |
| 76 | to be an object method (see L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes"> or |
| 77 | L<attributes>). |
| 78 | |
| 79 | =item Ambiguous range in transliteration operator |
| 80 | |
| 81 | (F) You wrote something like C<tr/a-z-0//> which doesn't mean anything at |
| 82 | all. To include a C<-> character in a transliteration, put it either |
| 83 | first or last. (In the past, C<tr/a-z-0//> was synonymous with |
| 84 | C<tr/a-y//>, which was probably not what you would have expected.) |
| 85 | |
| 86 | =item Ambiguous use of %s resolved as %s |
| 87 | |
| 88 | (W ambiguous)(S) You said something that may not be interpreted the way |
| 89 | you thought. Normally it's pretty easy to disambiguate it by supplying |
| 90 | a missing quote, operator, parenthesis pair or declaration. |
| 91 | |
| 92 | =item Ambiguous use of %c resolved as operator %c |
| 93 | |
| 94 | (W ambiguous) C<%>, C<&>, and C<*> are both infix operators (modulus, |
| 95 | bitwise and, and multiplication) I<and> initial special characters |
| 96 | (denoting hashes, subroutines and typeglobs), and you said something |
| 97 | like C<*foo * foo> that might be interpreted as either of them. We |
| 98 | assumed you meant the infix operator, but please try to make it more |
| 99 | clear -- in the example given, you might write C<*foo * foo()> if you |
| 100 | really meant to multiply a glob by the result of calling a function. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | =item Ambiguous use of %c{%s} resolved to %c%s |
| 103 | |
| 104 | (W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<@{foo}>, which might be |
| 105 | asking for the variable C<@foo>, or it might be calling a function |
| 106 | named foo, and dereferencing it as an array reference. If you wanted |
| 107 | the variable, you can just write C<@foo>. If you wanted to call the |
| 108 | function, write C<@{foo()}> ... or you could just not have a variable |
| 109 | and a function with the same name, and save yourself a lot of trouble. |
| 110 | |
| 111 | =item Ambiguous use of %c{%s[...]} resolved to %c%s[...] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | =item Ambiguous use of %c{%s{...}} resolved to %c%s{...} |
| 114 | |
| 115 | (W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<${foo[2]}> (where foo |
| 116 | represents the name of a Perl keyword), which might be looking for |
| 117 | element number 2 of the array named C<@foo>, in which case please write |
| 118 | C<$foo[2]>, or you might have meant to pass an anonymous arrayref to |
| 119 | the function named foo, and then do a scalar deref on the value it |
| 120 | returns. If you meant that, write C<${foo([2])}>. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | In regular expressions, the C<${foo[2]}> syntax is sometimes necessary |
| 123 | to disambiguate between array subscripts and character classes. |
| 124 | C</$length[2345]/>, for instance, will be interpreted as C<$length> |
| 125 | followed by the character class C<[2345]>. If an array subscript is what |
| 126 | you want, you can avoid the warning by changing C</${length[2345]}/> |
| 127 | to the unsightly C</${\$length[2345]}/>, by renaming your array to |
| 128 | something that does not coincide with a built-in keyword, or by |
| 129 | simply turning off warnings with C<no warnings 'ambiguous';>. |
| 130 | |
| 131 | =item Ambiguous use of -%s resolved as -&%s() |
| 132 | |
| 133 | (W ambiguous) You wrote something like C<-foo>, which might be the |
| 134 | string C<"-foo">, or a call to the function C<foo>, negated. If you meant |
| 135 | the string, just write C<"-foo">. If you meant the function call, |
| 136 | write C<-foo()>. |
| 137 | |
| 138 | =item Ambiguous use of 's//le...' resolved as 's// le...'; Rewrite as 's//el' if you meant 'use locale rules and evaluate rhs as an expression'. In Perl 5.16, it will be resolved the other way |
| 139 | |
| 140 | (W deprecated, ambiguous) You wrote a pattern match with substitution |
| 141 | immediately followed by "le". In Perl 5.14 and earlier, this is |
| 142 | resolved as meaning to take the result of the substitution, and see if |
| 143 | it is stringwise less-than-or-equal-to what follows in the expression. |
| 144 | Having the "le" immediately following a pattern is deprecated behavior, |
| 145 | so in Perl 5.16, this expression will be resolved as meaning to do the |
| 146 | pattern match using the rules of the current locale, and evaluate the |
| 147 | rhs as an expression when doing the substitution. In 5.14, if you want |
| 148 | the latter interpretation, you can simply write "el" instead. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | =item '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line |
| 151 | |
| 152 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 153 | redirection, and found that STDIN was a pipe, and that you also tried to |
| 154 | redirect STDIN using '<'. Only one STDIN stream to a customer, please. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | =item '|' and '>' may not both be specified on command line |
| 157 | |
| 158 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 159 | redirection, and thinks you tried to redirect stdout both to a file and |
| 160 | into a pipe to another command. You need to choose one or the other, |
| 161 | though nothing's stopping you from piping into a program or Perl script |
| 162 | which 'splits' output into two streams, such as |
| 163 | |
| 164 | open(OUT,">$ARGV[0]") or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]: $!"; |
| 165 | while (<STDIN>) { |
| 166 | print; |
| 167 | print OUT; |
| 168 | } |
| 169 | close OUT; |
| 170 | |
| 171 | =item Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s) |
| 172 | |
| 173 | (W misc) The pattern match (C<//>), substitution (C<s///>), and |
| 174 | transliteration (C<tr///>) operators work on scalar values. If you apply |
| 175 | one of them to an array or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to |
| 176 | a scalar value (the length of an array, or the population info of a |
| 177 | hash) and then work on that scalar value. This is probably not what |
| 178 | you meant to do. See L<perlfunc/grep> and L<perlfunc/map> for |
| 179 | alternatives. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | =item Arg too short for msgsnd |
| 182 | |
| 183 | (F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long). |
| 184 | |
| 185 | =item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine |
| 186 | |
| 187 | (F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element or a |
| 188 | subroutine with an ampersand, such as: |
| 189 | |
| 190 | $foo{$bar} |
| 191 | $ref->{"susie"}[12] |
| 192 | &do_something |
| 193 | |
| 194 | =item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice |
| 195 | |
| 196 | (F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash or array element, |
| 197 | such as: |
| 198 | |
| 199 | $foo{$bar} |
| 200 | $ref->{"susie"}[12] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | or a hash or array slice, such as: |
| 203 | |
| 204 | @foo[$bar, $baz, $xyzzy] |
| 205 | @{$ref->[12]}{"susie", "queue"} |
| 206 | |
| 207 | =item %s argument is not a subroutine name |
| 208 | |
| 209 | (F) The argument to exists() for C<exists &sub> must be a subroutine |
| 210 | name, and not a subroutine call. C<exists &sub()> will generate this |
| 211 | error. |
| 212 | |
| 213 | =item Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s |
| 214 | |
| 215 | (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator |
| 216 | that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the message |
| 217 | will identify which operator was so unfortunate. |
| 218 | |
| 219 | =item Argument list not closed for PerlIO layer "%s" |
| 220 | |
| 221 | (W layer) When pushing a layer with arguments onto the Perl I/O system you |
| 222 | forgot the ) that closes the argument list. (Layers take care of transforming |
| 223 | data between external and internal representations.) Perl stopped parsing |
| 224 | the layer list at this point and did not attempt to push this layer. |
| 225 | If your program didn't explicitly request the failing operation, it may be |
| 226 | the result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO. |
| 227 | |
| 228 | =item Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s() |
| 229 | |
| 230 | (D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the @ on array names in some |
| 231 | spots. This is now heavily deprecated. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | =item assertion botched: %s |
| 234 | |
| 235 | (X) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | =item Assertion failed: file "%s" |
| 238 | |
| 239 | (X) A general assertion failed. The file in question must be examined. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | =item Assigning non-zero to $[ is no longer possible |
| 242 | |
| 243 | (F) When the "array_base" feature is disabled (e.g., under C<use v5.16;>) |
| 244 | the special variable C<$[>, which is deprecated, is now a fixed zero value. |
| 245 | |
| 246 | =item Assignment to both a list and a scalar |
| 247 | |
| 248 | (F) If you assign to a conditional operator, the 2nd and 3rd arguments |
| 249 | must either both be scalars or both be lists. Otherwise Perl won't |
| 250 | know which context to supply to the right side. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | =item A thread exited while %d threads were running |
| 253 | |
| 254 | (W threads)(S) When using threaded Perl, a thread (not necessarily the main |
| 255 | thread) exited while there were still other threads running. |
| 256 | Usually it's a good idea first to collect the return values of the |
| 257 | created threads by joining them, and only then to exit from the main |
| 258 | thread. See L<threads>. |
| 259 | |
| 260 | =item Attempt to access disallowed key '%s' in a restricted hash |
| 261 | |
| 262 | (F) The failing code has attempted to get or set a key which is not in |
| 263 | the current set of allowed keys of a restricted hash. |
| 264 | |
| 265 | =item Attempt to bless into a reference |
| 266 | |
| 267 | (F) The CLASSNAME argument to the bless() operator is expected to be |
| 268 | the name of the package to bless the resulting object into. You've |
| 269 | supplied instead a reference to something: perhaps you wrote |
| 270 | |
| 271 | bless $self, $proto; |
| 272 | |
| 273 | when you intended |
| 274 | |
| 275 | bless $self, ref($proto) || $proto; |
| 276 | |
| 277 | If you actually want to bless into the stringified version |
| 278 | of the reference supplied, you need to stringify it yourself, for |
| 279 | example by: |
| 280 | |
| 281 | bless $self, "$proto"; |
| 282 | |
| 283 | =item Attempt to delete disallowed key '%s' from a restricted hash |
| 284 | |
| 285 | (F) The failing code attempted to delete from a restricted hash a key |
| 286 | which is not in its key set. |
| 287 | |
| 288 | =item Attempt to delete readonly key '%s' from a restricted hash |
| 289 | |
| 290 | (F) The failing code attempted to delete a key whose value has been |
| 291 | declared readonly from a restricted hash. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | =item Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%x |
| 294 | |
| 295 | (S internal) All SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas |
| 296 | that will be garbage collected on exit. An SV was discovered to be |
| 297 | outside any of those arenas. |
| 298 | |
| 299 | =item Attempt to free nonexistent shared string '%s'%s |
| 300 | |
| 301 | (S internal) Perl maintains a reference-counted internal table of |
| 302 | strings to optimize the storage and access of hash keys and other |
| 303 | strings. This indicates someone tried to decrement the reference count |
| 304 | of a string that can no longer be found in the table. |
| 305 | |
| 306 | =item Attempt to free temp prematurely |
| 307 | |
| 308 | (S debugging) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the |
| 309 | free_tmps() routine. This indicates that something else is freeing the |
| 310 | SV before the free_tmps() routine gets a chance, which means that the |
| 311 | free_tmps() routine will be freeing an unreferenced scalar when it does |
| 312 | try to free it. |
| 313 | |
| 314 | =item Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers |
| 315 | |
| 316 | (S internal) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol aliases. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | =item Attempt to free unreferenced scalar |
| 319 | |
| 320 | (W internal) Perl went to decrement the reference count of a scalar to |
| 321 | see if it would go to 0, and discovered that it had already gone to 0 |
| 322 | earlier, and should have been freed, and in fact, probably was freed. |
| 323 | This could indicate that SvREFCNT_dec() was called too many times, or |
| 324 | that SvREFCNT_inc() was called too few times, or that the SV was |
| 325 | mortalized when it shouldn't have been, or that memory has been |
| 326 | corrupted. |
| 327 | |
| 328 | =item Attempt to join self |
| 329 | |
| 330 | (F) You tried to join a thread from within itself, which is an |
| 331 | impossible task. You may be joining the wrong thread, or you may need |
| 332 | to move the join() to some other thread. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | =item Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value |
| 335 | |
| 336 | (W pack) You tried to pass a temporary value (like the result of a |
| 337 | function, or a computed expression) to the "p" pack() template. This |
| 338 | means the result contains a pointer to a location that could become |
| 339 | invalid anytime, even before the end of the current statement. Use |
| 340 | literals or global values as arguments to the "p" pack() template to |
| 341 | avoid this warning. |
| 342 | |
| 343 | =item Attempt to reload %s aborted. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | (F) You tried to load a file with C<use> or C<require> that failed to |
| 346 | compile once already. Perl will not try to compile this file again |
| 347 | unless you delete its entry from %INC. See L<perlfunc/require> and |
| 348 | L<perlvar/%INC>. |
| 349 | |
| 350 | =item Attempt to set length of freed array |
| 351 | |
| 352 | (W) You tried to set the length of an array which has been freed. You |
| 353 | can do this by storing a reference to the scalar representing the last index |
| 354 | of an array and later assigning through that reference. For example |
| 355 | |
| 356 | $r = do {my @a; \$#a}; |
| 357 | $$r = 503 |
| 358 | |
| 359 | =item Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr |
| 360 | |
| 361 | (W substr) You supplied a reference as the first argument to substr() |
| 362 | used as an lvalue, which is pretty strange. Perhaps you forgot to |
| 363 | dereference it first. See L<perlfunc/substr>. |
| 364 | |
| 365 | =item Attribute "locked" is deprecated |
| 366 | |
| 367 | (D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify the "locked" |
| 368 | attribute on a code reference. The :locked attribute is obsolete, has had no |
| 369 | effect since 5005 threads were removed, and will be removed in a future |
| 370 | release of Perl 5. |
| 371 | |
| 372 | =item Attribute "unique" is deprecated |
| 373 | |
| 374 | (D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragma to modify the "unique" |
| 375 | attribute on an array, hash or scalar reference. The :unique attribute has |
| 376 | had no effect since Perl 5.8.8, and will be removed in a future release |
| 377 | of Perl 5. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | =item Bad arg length for %s, is %u, should be %d |
| 380 | |
| 381 | (F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl(), semctl() |
| 382 | or shmctl(). In C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively, |
| 383 | S<sizeof(struct msqid_ds *)>, S<sizeof(struct semid_ds *)>, and |
| 384 | S<sizeof(struct shmid_ds *)>. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | =item Bad evalled substitution pattern |
| 387 | |
| 388 | (F) You've used the C</e> switch to evaluate the replacement for a |
| 389 | substitution, but perl found a syntax error in the code to evaluate, |
| 390 | most likely an unexpected right brace '}'. |
| 391 | |
| 392 | =item Bad filehandle: %s |
| 393 | |
| 394 | (F) A symbol was passed to something wanting a filehandle, but the |
| 395 | symbol has no filehandle associated with it. Perhaps you didn't do an |
| 396 | open(), or did it in another package. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | =item Bad free() ignored |
| 399 | |
| 400 | (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never |
| 401 | been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by |
| 402 | setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 0. |
| 403 | |
| 404 | This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard" |
| 405 | dynamic linking, like C<AIX> and C<OS/2>. It is a bug of C<Berkeley DB> |
| 406 | which is left unnoticed if C<DB> uses I<forgiving> system malloc(). |
| 407 | |
| 408 | =item Bad hash |
| 409 | |
| 410 | (P) One of the internal hash routines was passed a null HV pointer. |
| 411 | |
| 412 | =item Badly placed ()'s |
| 413 | |
| 414 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead |
| 415 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into |
| 416 | Perl yourself. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | =item Bad name after %s:: |
| 419 | |
| 420 | (F) You started to name a symbol by using a package prefix, and then |
| 421 | didn't finish the symbol. In particular, you can't interpolate outside |
| 422 | of quotes, so |
| 423 | |
| 424 | $var = 'myvar'; |
| 425 | $sym = mypack::$var; |
| 426 | |
| 427 | is not the same as |
| 428 | |
| 429 | $var = 'myvar'; |
| 430 | $sym = "mypack::$var"; |
| 431 | |
| 432 | =item Bad plugin affecting keyword '%s' |
| 433 | |
| 434 | (F) An extension using the keyword plugin mechanism violated the |
| 435 | plugin API. |
| 436 | |
| 437 | =item Bad realloc() ignored |
| 438 | |
| 439 | (S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had |
| 440 | never been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled |
| 441 | by setting the environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 1. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | =item Bad symbol for array |
| 444 | |
| 445 | (P) An internal request asked to add an array entry to something that |
| 446 | wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 447 | |
| 448 | =item Bad symbol for dirhandle |
| 449 | |
| 450 | (P) An internal request asked to add a dirhandle entry to something |
| 451 | that wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 452 | |
| 453 | =item Bad symbol for filehandle |
| 454 | |
| 455 | (P) An internal request asked to add a filehandle entry to something |
| 456 | that wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | =item Bad symbol for hash |
| 459 | |
| 460 | (P) An internal request asked to add a hash entry to something that |
| 461 | wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | =item Bareword found in conditional |
| 464 | |
| 465 | (W bareword) The compiler found a bareword where it expected a |
| 466 | conditional, which often indicates that an || or && was parsed as part |
| 467 | of the last argument of the previous construct, for example: |
| 468 | |
| 469 | open FOO || die; |
| 470 | |
| 471 | It may also indicate a misspelled constant that has been interpreted as |
| 472 | a bareword: |
| 473 | |
| 474 | use constant TYPO => 1; |
| 475 | if (TYOP) { print "foo" } |
| 476 | |
| 477 | The C<strict> pragma is useful in avoiding such errors. |
| 478 | |
| 479 | =item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use |
| 480 | |
| 481 | (F) With "strict subs" in use, a bareword is only allowed as a |
| 482 | subroutine identifier, in curly brackets or to the left of the "=>" |
| 483 | symbol. Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine? |
| 484 | |
| 485 | =item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package |
| 486 | |
| 487 | (W bareword) You used a qualified bareword of the form C<Foo::>, but the |
| 488 | compiler saw no other uses of that namespace before that point. Perhaps |
| 489 | you need to predeclare a package? |
| 490 | |
| 491 | =item BEGIN failed--compilation aborted |
| 492 | |
| 493 | (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a BEGIN |
| 494 | subroutine. Compilation stops immediately and the interpreter is |
| 495 | exited. |
| 496 | |
| 497 | =item BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted |
| 498 | |
| 499 | (F) Perl found a C<BEGIN {}> subroutine (or a C<use> directive, which |
| 500 | implies a C<BEGIN {}>) after one or more compilation errors had already |
| 501 | occurred. Since the intended environment for the C<BEGIN {}> could not |
| 502 | be guaranteed (due to the errors), and since subsequent code likely |
| 503 | depends on its correct operation, Perl just gave up. |
| 504 | |
| 505 | =item \1 better written as $1 |
| 506 | |
| 507 | (W syntax) Outside of patterns, backreferences live on as variables. |
| 508 | The use of backslashes is grandfathered on the right-hand side of a |
| 509 | substitution, but stylistically it's better to use the variable form |
| 510 | because other Perl programmers will expect it, and it works better if |
| 511 | there are more than 9 backreferences. |
| 512 | |
| 513 | =item Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable |
| 514 | |
| 515 | (W portable) The binary number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 516 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 517 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 518 | |
| 519 | =item bind() on closed socket %s |
| 520 | |
| 521 | (W closed) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket. Did you forget to |
| 522 | check the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/bind>. |
| 523 | |
| 524 | =item binmode() on closed filehandle %s |
| 525 | |
| 526 | (W unopened) You tried binmode() on a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 527 | Check your control flow and number of arguments. |
| 528 | |
| 529 | =item "\b{" is deprecated; use "\b\{" instead |
| 530 | |
| 531 | =item "\B{" is deprecated; use "\B\{" instead |
| 532 | |
| 533 | (W deprecated, regexp) Use of an unescaped "{" immediately following a |
| 534 | C<\b> or C<\B> is now deprecated so as to reserve its use for Perl |
| 535 | itself in a future release. |
| 536 | |
| 537 | =item Bit vector size > 32 non-portable |
| 538 | |
| 539 | (W portable) Using bit vector sizes larger than 32 is non-portable. |
| 540 | |
| 541 | =item Bizarre copy of %s in %s |
| 542 | |
| 543 | (P) Perl detected an attempt to copy an internal value that is not |
| 544 | copiable. |
| 545 | |
| 546 | =item Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s |
| 547 | |
| 548 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. While Perl was preparing to |
| 549 | iterate over %ENV, it encountered a logical name or symbol definition |
| 550 | which was too long, so it was truncated to the string shown. |
| 551 | |
| 552 | =item Callback called exit |
| 553 | |
| 554 | (F) A subroutine invoked from an external package via call_sv() |
| 555 | exited by calling exit. |
| 556 | |
| 557 | =item %s() called too early to check prototype |
| 558 | |
| 559 | (W prototype) You've called a function that has a prototype before the |
| 560 | parser saw a definition or declaration for it, and Perl could not check |
| 561 | that the call conforms to the prototype. You need to either add an |
| 562 | early prototype declaration for the subroutine in question, or move the |
| 563 | subroutine definition ahead of the call to get proper prototype |
| 564 | checking. Alternatively, if you are certain that you're calling the |
| 565 | function correctly, you may put an ampersand before the name to avoid |
| 566 | the warning. See L<perlsub>. |
| 567 | |
| 568 | =item Cannot compress integer in pack |
| 569 | |
| 570 | (F) An argument to pack("w",...) was too large to compress. The BER |
| 571 | compressed integer format can only be used with positive integers, and you |
| 572 | attempted to compress Infinity or a very large number (> 1e308). |
| 573 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 574 | |
| 575 | =item Cannot compress negative numbers in pack |
| 576 | |
| 577 | (F) An argument to pack("w",...) was negative. The BER compressed integer |
| 578 | format can only be used with positive integers. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 579 | |
| 580 | =item Cannot convert a reference to %s to typeglob |
| 581 | |
| 582 | (F) You manipulated Perl's symbol table directly, stored a reference in it, |
| 583 | then tried to access that symbol via conventional Perl syntax. The access |
| 584 | triggers Perl to autovivify that typeglob, but it there is no legal conversion |
| 585 | from that type of reference to a typeglob. |
| 586 | |
| 587 | =item Cannot copy to %s in %s |
| 588 | |
| 589 | (P) Perl detected an attempt to copy a value to an internal type that cannot |
| 590 | be directly assigned to. |
| 591 | |
| 592 | =item Cannot find encoding "%s" |
| 593 | |
| 594 | (S io) You tried to apply an encoding that did not exist to a filehandle, |
| 595 | either with open() or binmode(). |
| 596 | |
| 597 | =item Can only compress unsigned integers in pack |
| 598 | |
| 599 | (F) An argument to pack("w",...) was not an integer. The BER compressed |
| 600 | integer format can only be used with positive integers, and you attempted |
| 601 | to compress something else. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 602 | |
| 603 | =item Can't bless non-reference value |
| 604 | |
| 605 | (F) Only hard references may be blessed. This is how Perl "enforces" |
| 606 | encapsulation of objects. See L<perlobj>. |
| 607 | |
| 608 | =item Can't "break" in a loop topicalizer |
| 609 | |
| 610 | (F) You called C<break>, but you're in a C<foreach> block rather than |
| 611 | a C<given> block. You probably meant to use C<next> or C<last>. |
| 612 | |
| 613 | =item Can't "break" outside a given block |
| 614 | |
| 615 | (F) You called C<break>, but you're not inside a C<given> block. |
| 616 | |
| 617 | =item Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value |
| 618 | |
| 619 | (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the |
| 620 | object reference or package name contains an undefined value. Something |
| 621 | like this will reproduce the error: |
| 622 | |
| 623 | $BADREF = undef; |
| 624 | process $BADREF 1,2,3; |
| 625 | $BADREF->process(1,2,3); |
| 626 | |
| 627 | =item Can't call method "%s" on unblessed reference |
| 628 | |
| 629 | (F) A method call must know in what package it's supposed to run. It |
| 630 | ordinarily finds this out from the object reference you supply, but you |
| 631 | didn't supply an object reference in this case. A reference isn't an |
| 632 | object reference until it has been blessed. See L<perlobj>. |
| 633 | |
| 634 | =item Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference |
| 635 | |
| 636 | (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the |
| 637 | object reference or package name contains an expression that returns a |
| 638 | defined value which is neither an object reference nor a package name. |
| 639 | Something like this will reproduce the error: |
| 640 | |
| 641 | $BADREF = 42; |
| 642 | process $BADREF 1,2,3; |
| 643 | $BADREF->process(1,2,3); |
| 644 | |
| 645 | =item Can't chdir to %s |
| 646 | |
| 647 | (F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory |
| 648 | that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist. |
| 649 | |
| 650 | =item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid |
| 651 | |
| 652 | (P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for |
| 653 | nosuid. |
| 654 | |
| 655 | =item Can't coerce %s to %s in %s |
| 656 | |
| 657 | (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries |
| 658 | (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. So you can't |
| 659 | say things like: |
| 660 | |
| 661 | *foo += 1; |
| 662 | |
| 663 | You CAN say |
| 664 | |
| 665 | $foo = *foo; |
| 666 | $foo += 1; |
| 667 | |
| 668 | but then $foo no longer contains a glob. |
| 669 | |
| 670 | =item Can't "continue" outside a when block |
| 671 | |
| 672 | (F) You called C<continue>, but you're not inside a C<when> |
| 673 | or C<default> block. |
| 674 | |
| 675 | =item Can't create pipe mailbox |
| 676 | |
| 677 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The process is suffering from exhausted |
| 678 | quotas or other plumbing problems. |
| 679 | |
| 680 | =item Can't declare %s in "%s" |
| 681 | |
| 682 | (F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as "my", "our" or |
| 683 | "state" variables. They must have ordinary identifiers as names. |
| 684 | |
| 685 | =item Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file |
| 686 | |
| 687 | (S inplace) You tried to use the B<-i> switch on a special file, such as |
| 688 | a file in /dev, or a FIFO. The file was ignored. |
| 689 | |
| 690 | =item Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s |
| 691 | |
| 692 | (S inplace) The creation of the new file failed for the indicated |
| 693 | reason. |
| 694 | |
| 695 | =item Can't do inplace edit without backup |
| 696 | |
| 697 | (F) You're on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if you try |
| 698 | reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say |
| 699 | C<-i.bak>, or some such. |
| 700 | |
| 701 | =item Can't do inplace edit: %s would not be unique |
| 702 | |
| 703 | (S inplace) Your filesystem does not support filenames longer than 14 |
| 704 | characters and Perl was unable to create a unique filename during |
| 705 | inplace editing with the B<-i> switch. The file was ignored. |
| 706 | |
| 707 | =item Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 708 | |
| 709 | (F) Minima must be less than or equal to maxima. If you really want your |
| 710 | regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}. The <-- HERE shows in the |
| 711 | regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 712 | |
| 713 | =item Can't do waitpid with flags |
| 714 | |
| 715 | (F) This machine doesn't have either waitpid() or wait4(), so only |
| 716 | waitpid() without flags is emulated. |
| 717 | |
| 718 | =item Can't emulate -%s on #! line |
| 719 | |
| 720 | (F) The #! line specifies a switch that doesn't make sense at this |
| 721 | point. For example, it'd be kind of silly to put a B<-x> on the #! |
| 722 | line. |
| 723 | |
| 724 | =item Can't %s %s-endian %ss on this platform |
| 725 | |
| 726 | (F) Your platform's byte-order is neither big-endian nor little-endian, |
| 727 | or it has a very strange pointer size. Packing and unpacking big- or |
| 728 | little-endian floating point values and pointers may not be possible. |
| 729 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 730 | |
| 731 | =item Can't exec "%s": %s |
| 732 | |
| 733 | (W exec) A system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the |
| 734 | named program for the indicated reason. Typical reasons include: the |
| 735 | permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in |
| 736 | C<$ENV{PATH}>, the executable in question was compiled for another |
| 737 | architecture, or the #! line in a script points to an interpreter that |
| 738 | can't be run for similar reasons. (Or maybe your system doesn't support |
| 739 | #! at all.) |
| 740 | |
| 741 | =item Can't exec %s |
| 742 | |
| 743 | (F) Perl was trying to execute the indicated program for you because |
| 744 | that's what the #! line said. If that's not what you wanted, you may |
| 745 | need to mention "perl" on the #! line somewhere. |
| 746 | |
| 747 | =item Can't execute %s |
| 748 | |
| 749 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the copies of the script to execute |
| 750 | found in the PATH did not have correct permissions. |
| 751 | |
| 752 | =item Can't find an opnumber for "%s" |
| 753 | |
| 754 | (F) A string of a form C<CORE::word> was given to prototype(), but there |
| 755 | is no builtin with the name C<word>. |
| 756 | |
| 757 | =item Can't find %s character property "%s" |
| 758 | |
| 759 | (F) You used C<\p{}> or C<\P{}> but the character property by that name |
| 760 | could not be found. Maybe you misspelled the name of the property? |
| 761 | See L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through \p{} and \P{}> |
| 762 | for a complete list of available properties. |
| 763 | |
| 764 | =item Can't find label %s |
| 765 | |
| 766 | (F) You said to goto a label that isn't mentioned anywhere that it's |
| 767 | possible for us to go to. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 768 | |
| 769 | =item Can't find %s on PATH |
| 770 | |
| 771 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be |
| 772 | found in the PATH. |
| 773 | |
| 774 | =item Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH |
| 775 | |
| 776 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be |
| 777 | found in the PATH, or at least not with the correct permissions. The |
| 778 | script exists in the current directory, but PATH prohibits running it. |
| 779 | |
| 780 | =item Can't find string terminator %s anywhere before EOF |
| 781 | |
| 782 | (F) Perl strings can stretch over multiple lines. This message means |
| 783 | that the closing delimiter was omitted. Because bracketed quotes count |
| 784 | nesting levels, the following is missing its final parenthesis: |
| 785 | |
| 786 | print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.); |
| 787 | |
| 788 | If you're getting this error from a here-document, you may have |
| 789 | included unseen whitespace before or after your closing tag or there |
| 790 | may not be a linebreak after it. A good programmer's editor will have |
| 791 | a way to help you find these characters (or lack of characters). See |
| 792 | L<perlop> for the full details on here-documents. |
| 793 | |
| 794 | =item Can't find Unicode property definition "%s" |
| 795 | |
| 796 | (F) You may have tried to use C<\p> which means a Unicode |
| 797 | property (for example C<\p{Lu}> matches all uppercase |
| 798 | letters). If you did mean to use a Unicode property, see |
| 799 | L<perluniprops/Properties accessible through \p{} and \P{}> |
| 800 | for a complete list of available properties. If you didn't |
| 801 | mean to use a Unicode property, escape the C<\p>, either by C<\\p> |
| 802 | (just the C<\p>) or by C<\Q\p> (the rest of the string, or |
| 803 | until C<\E>). |
| 804 | |
| 805 | =item Can't fork: %s |
| 806 | |
| 807 | (F) A fatal error occurred while trying to fork while opening a |
| 808 | pipeline. |
| 809 | |
| 810 | =item Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds |
| 811 | |
| 812 | (W pipe) A fork in a piped open failed with EAGAIN and will be retried |
| 813 | after five seconds. |
| 814 | |
| 815 | =item Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer? |
| 816 | |
| 817 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. This arises because of the difference |
| 818 | between access checks under VMS and under the Unix model Perl assumes. |
| 819 | Under VMS, access checks are done by filename, rather than by bits in |
| 820 | the stat buffer, so that ACLs and other protections can be taken into |
| 821 | account. Unfortunately, Perl assumes that the stat buffer contains all |
| 822 | the necessary information, and passes it, instead of the filespec, to |
| 823 | the access-checking routine. It will try to retrieve the filespec using |
| 824 | the device name and FID present in the stat buffer, but this works only |
| 825 | if you haven't made a subsequent call to the CRTL stat() routine, |
| 826 | because the device name is overwritten with each call. If this warning |
| 827 | appears, the name lookup failed, and the access-checking routine gave up |
| 828 | and returned FALSE, just to be conservative. (Note: The access-checking |
| 829 | routine knows about the Perl C<stat> operator and file tests, so you |
| 830 | shouldn't ever see this warning in response to a Perl command; it arises |
| 831 | only if some internal code takes stat buffers lightly.) |
| 832 | |
| 833 | =item Can't get pipe mailbox device name |
| 834 | |
| 835 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. After creating a mailbox to act as a |
| 836 | pipe, Perl can't retrieve its name for later use. |
| 837 | |
| 838 | =item Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF |
| 839 | |
| 840 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl asked $GETSYI how big you want your |
| 841 | mailbox buffers to be, and didn't get an answer. |
| 842 | |
| 843 | =item Can't "goto" into the middle of a foreach loop |
| 844 | |
| 845 | (F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump into the middle of a foreach |
| 846 | loop. You can't get there from here. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 847 | |
| 848 | =item Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block |
| 849 | |
| 850 | (F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump out of what might look like |
| 851 | a block, except that it isn't a proper block. This usually occurs if |
| 852 | you tried to jump out of a sort() block or subroutine, which is a no-no. |
| 853 | See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 854 | |
| 855 | =item Can't goto subroutine from a sort sub (or similar callback) |
| 856 | |
| 857 | (F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of the |
| 858 | comparison sub for a sort(), or from a similar callback (such |
| 859 | as the reduce() function in List::Util). |
| 860 | |
| 861 | =item Can't goto subroutine from an eval-%s |
| 862 | |
| 863 | (F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval |
| 864 | "string" or block. |
| 865 | |
| 866 | =item Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine |
| 867 | |
| 868 | (F) The deeply magical "goto subroutine" call can only replace one |
| 869 | subroutine call for another. It can't manufacture one out of whole |
| 870 | cloth. In general you should be calling it out of only an AUTOLOAD |
| 871 | routine anyway. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 872 | |
| 873 | =item Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default |
| 874 | |
| 875 | (W signal) Perl has detected that it is being run with the SIGCHLD |
| 876 | signal (sometimes known as SIGCLD) disabled. Since disabling this |
| 877 | signal will interfere with proper determination of exit status of child |
| 878 | processes, Perl has reset the signal to its default value. This |
| 879 | situation typically indicates that the parent program under which Perl |
| 880 | may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | =item Can't kill a non-numeric process ID |
| 883 | |
| 884 | (F) Process identifiers must be (signed) integers. It is a fatal error to |
| 885 | attempt to kill() an undefined, empty-string or otherwise non-numeric |
| 886 | process identifier. |
| 887 | |
| 888 | =item Can't "last" outside a loop block |
| 889 | |
| 890 | (F) A "last" statement was executed to break out of the current block, |
| 891 | except that there's this itty bitty problem called there isn't a current |
| 892 | block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't count as a "loopish" |
| 893 | block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or grep(). You can |
| 894 | usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the |
| 895 | inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See |
| 896 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 897 | |
| 898 | =item Can't linearize anonymous symbol table |
| 899 | |
| 900 | (F) Perl tried to calculate the method resolution order (MRO) of a |
| 901 | package, but failed because the package stash has no name. |
| 902 | |
| 903 | =item Can't load '%s' for module %s |
| 904 | |
| 905 | (F) The module you tried to load failed to load a dynamic extension. This |
| 906 | may either mean that you upgraded your version of perl to one that is |
| 907 | incompatible with your old dynamic extensions (which is known to happen |
| 908 | between major versions of perl), or (more likely) that your dynamic |
| 909 | extension was built against an older version of the library that is |
| 910 | installed on your system. You may need to rebuild your old dynamic |
| 911 | extensions. |
| 912 | |
| 913 | =item Can't localize lexical variable %s |
| 914 | |
| 915 | (F) You used local on a variable name that was previously declared as a |
| 916 | lexical variable using "my" or "state". This is not allowed. If you want to |
| 917 | localize a package variable of the same name, qualify it with the |
| 918 | package name. |
| 919 | |
| 920 | =item Can't localize through a reference |
| 921 | |
| 922 | (F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently |
| 923 | handle, because when it goes to restore the old value of whatever $ref |
| 924 | pointed to after the scope of the local() is finished, it can't be sure |
| 925 | that $ref will still be a reference. |
| 926 | |
| 927 | =item Can't locate %s |
| 928 | |
| 929 | (F) You said to C<do> (or C<require>, or C<use>) a file that couldn't be |
| 930 | found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC, |
| 931 | unless the file name included the full path to the file. Perhaps you |
| 932 | need to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where |
| 933 | the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name |
| 934 | to @INC. Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file. See |
| 935 | L<perlfunc/require> and L<lib>. |
| 936 | |
| 937 | =item Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC |
| 938 | |
| 939 | (F) A function (or method) was called in a package which allows |
| 940 | autoload, but there is no function to autoload. Most probable causes |
| 941 | are a misprint in a function/method name or a failure to C<AutoSplit> |
| 942 | the file, say, by doing C<make install>. |
| 943 | |
| 944 | =item Can't locate loadable object for module %s in @INC |
| 945 | |
| 946 | (F) The module you loaded is trying to load an external library, like |
| 947 | for example, C<foo.so> or C<bar.dll>, but the L<DynaLoader> module was |
| 948 | unable to locate this library. See L<DynaLoader>. |
| 949 | |
| 950 | =item Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s" |
| 951 | |
| 952 | (F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package |
| 953 | functioning as a class, but that package doesn't define that particular |
| 954 | method, nor does any of its base classes. See L<perlobj>. |
| 955 | |
| 956 | =item Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA |
| 957 | |
| 958 | (W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that |
| 959 | doesn't seem to exist. |
| 960 | |
| 961 | =item Can't locate PerlIO%s |
| 962 | |
| 963 | (F) You tried to use in open() a PerlIO layer that does not exist, |
| 964 | e.g. open(FH, ">:nosuchlayer", "somefile"). |
| 965 | |
| 966 | =item Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system |
| 967 | |
| 968 | (F) List assignment to %ENV is not supported on some systems, notably |
| 969 | VMS. |
| 970 | |
| 971 | =item Can't modify %s in %s |
| 972 | |
| 973 | (F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try |
| 974 | to change it, such as with an auto-increment. |
| 975 | |
| 976 | =item Can't modify nonexistent substring |
| 977 | |
| 978 | (P) The internal routine that does assignment to a substr() was handed |
| 979 | a NULL. |
| 980 | |
| 981 | =item Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call |
| 982 | |
| 983 | (F) Subroutines meant to be used in lvalue context should be declared as |
| 984 | such. See L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">. |
| 985 | |
| 986 | =item Can't msgrcv to read-only var |
| 987 | |
| 988 | (F) The target of a msgrcv must be modifiable to be used as a receive |
| 989 | buffer. |
| 990 | |
| 991 | =item Can't "next" outside a loop block |
| 992 | |
| 993 | (F) A "next" statement was executed to reiterate the current block, but |
| 994 | there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't |
| 995 | count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or |
| 996 | grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect |
| 997 | though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops |
| 998 | once. See L<perlfunc/next>. |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | =item Can't open %s: %s |
| 1001 | |
| 1002 | (S inplace) The implicit opening of a file through use of the C<< <> >> |
| 1003 | filehandle, either implicitly under the C<-n> or C<-p> command-line |
| 1004 | switches, or explicitly, failed for the indicated reason. Usually this |
| 1005 | is because you don't have read permission for a file which you named on |
| 1006 | the command line. |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | =item Can't open a reference |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | (W io) You tried to open a scalar reference for reading or writing, |
| 1011 | using the 3-arg open() syntax: |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 | open FH, '>', $ref; |
| 1014 | |
| 1015 | but your version of perl is compiled without perlio, and this form of |
| 1016 | open is not supported. |
| 1017 | |
| 1018 | =item Can't open bidirectional pipe |
| 1019 | |
| 1020 | (W pipe) You tried to say C<open(CMD, "|cmd|")>, which is not supported. |
| 1021 | You can try any of several modules in the Perl library to do this, such |
| 1022 | as IPC::Open2. Alternately, direct the pipe's output to a file using |
| 1023 | ">", and then read it in under a different file handle. |
| 1024 | |
| 1025 | =item Can't open error file %s as stderr |
| 1026 | |
| 1027 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 1028 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '2>' or '2>>' on |
| 1029 | the command line for writing. |
| 1030 | |
| 1031 | =item Can't open input file %s as stdin |
| 1032 | |
| 1033 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 1034 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '<' on the |
| 1035 | command line for reading. |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | =item Can't open output file %s as stdout |
| 1038 | |
| 1039 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 1040 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '>' or '>>' on |
| 1041 | the command line for writing. |
| 1042 | |
| 1043 | =item Can't open output pipe (name: %s) |
| 1044 | |
| 1045 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 1046 | redirection, and couldn't open the pipe into which to send data destined |
| 1047 | for stdout. |
| 1048 | |
| 1049 | =item Can't open perl script%s |
| 1050 | |
| 1051 | (F) The script you specified can't be opened for the indicated reason. |
| 1052 | |
| 1053 | If you're debugging a script that uses #!, and normally relies on the |
| 1054 | shell's $PATH search, the -S option causes perl to do that search, so |
| 1055 | you don't have to type the path or C<`which $scriptname`>. |
| 1056 | |
| 1057 | =item Can't read CRTL environ |
| 1058 | |
| 1059 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read an element of %ENV |
| 1060 | from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was |
| 1061 | missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ |
| 1062 | or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not |
| 1063 | searched. |
| 1064 | |
| 1065 | =item Can't "redo" outside a loop block |
| 1066 | |
| 1067 | (F) A "redo" statement was executed to restart the current block, but |
| 1068 | there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't |
| 1069 | count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() |
| 1070 | or grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect |
| 1071 | though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that |
| 1072 | loops once. See L<perlfunc/redo>. |
| 1073 | |
| 1074 | =item Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | (S inplace) You requested an inplace edit without creating a backup |
| 1077 | file. Perl was unable to remove the original file to replace it with |
| 1078 | the modified file. The file was left unmodified. |
| 1079 | |
| 1080 | =item Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 | (S inplace) The rename done by the B<-i> switch failed for some reason, |
| 1083 | probably because you don't have write permission to the directory. |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | =item Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in binary mode |
| 1086 | |
| 1087 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl thought stdin was a pipe, and tried |
| 1088 | to reopen it to accept binary data. Alas, it failed. |
| 1089 | |
| 1090 | =item Can't resolve method "%s" overloading "%s" in package "%s" |
| 1091 | |
| 1092 | (F)(P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as |
| 1093 | opposed to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the |
| 1094 | package. If the method name is C<???>, this is an internal error. |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 | =item Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine |
| 1097 | |
| 1098 | (F) Perl detected an attempt to return illegal lvalues (such as |
| 1099 | temporary or readonly values) from a subroutine used as an lvalue. This |
| 1100 | is not allowed. |
| 1101 | |
| 1102 | =item Can't return outside a subroutine |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | (F) The return statement was executed in mainline code, that is, where |
| 1105 | there was no subroutine call to return out of. See L<perlsub>. |
| 1106 | |
| 1107 | =item Can't return %s to lvalue scalar context |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 | (F) You tried to return a complete array or hash from an lvalue subroutine, |
| 1110 | but you called the subroutine in a way that made Perl think you meant |
| 1111 | to return only one value. You probably meant to write parentheses around |
| 1112 | the call to the subroutine, which tell Perl that the call should be in |
| 1113 | list context. |
| 1114 | |
| 1115 | =item Can't stat script "%s" |
| 1116 | |
| 1117 | (P) For some reason you can't fstat() the script even though you have it |
| 1118 | open already. Bizarre. |
| 1119 | |
| 1120 | =item Can't take log of %g |
| 1121 | |
| 1122 | (F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the logarithm of a |
| 1123 | negative number or zero. There's a Math::Complex package that comes |
| 1124 | standard with Perl, though, if you really want to do that for the |
| 1125 | negative numbers. |
| 1126 | |
| 1127 | =item Can't take sqrt of %g |
| 1128 | |
| 1129 | (F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the square root of a |
| 1130 | negative number. There's a Math::Complex package that comes standard |
| 1131 | with Perl, though, if you really want to do that. |
| 1132 | |
| 1133 | =item Can't undef active subroutine |
| 1134 | |
| 1135 | (F) You can't undefine a routine that's currently running. You can, |
| 1136 | however, redefine it while it's running, and you can even undef the |
| 1137 | redefined subroutine while the old routine is running. Go figure. |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 | =item Can't upgrade %s (%d) to %d |
| 1140 | |
| 1141 | (P) The internal sv_upgrade routine adds "members" to an SV, making it |
| 1142 | into a more specialized kind of SV. The top several SV types are so |
| 1143 | specialized, however, that they cannot be interconverted. This message |
| 1144 | indicates that such a conversion was attempted. |
| 1145 | |
| 1146 | =item Can't use anonymous symbol table for method lookup |
| 1147 | |
| 1148 | (F) The internal routine that does method lookup was handed a symbol |
| 1149 | table that doesn't have a name. Symbol tables can become anonymous |
| 1150 | for example by undefining stashes: C<undef %Some::Package::>. |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | =item Can't use an undefined value as %s reference |
| 1153 | |
| 1154 | (F) A value used as either a hard reference or a symbolic reference must |
| 1155 | be a defined value. This helps to delurk some insidious errors. |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | =item Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use |
| 1158 | |
| 1159 | (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic |
| 1160 | references are disallowed. See L<perlref>. |
| 1161 | |
| 1162 | =item Can't use %! because Errno.pm is not available |
| 1163 | |
| 1164 | (F) The first time the %! hash is used, perl automatically loads the |
| 1165 | Errno.pm module. The Errno module is expected to tie the %! hash to |
| 1166 | provide symbolic names for C<$!> errno values. |
| 1167 | |
| 1168 | =item Can't use both '<' and '>' after type '%c' in %s |
| 1169 | |
| 1170 | (F) A type cannot be forced to have both big-endian and little-endian |
| 1171 | byte-order at the same time, so this combination of modifiers is not |
| 1172 | allowed. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1173 | |
| 1174 | =item Can't use %s for loop variable |
| 1175 | |
| 1176 | (F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a |
| 1177 | foreach. |
| 1178 | |
| 1179 | =item Can't use global %s in "%s" |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 | (F) You tried to declare a magical variable as a lexical variable. This |
| 1182 | is not allowed, because the magic can be tied to only one location |
| 1183 | (namely the global variable) and it would be incredibly confusing to |
| 1184 | have variables in your program that looked like magical variables but |
| 1185 | weren't. |
| 1186 | |
| 1187 | =item Can't use '%c' in a group with different byte-order in %s |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 | (F) You attempted to force a different byte-order on a type |
| 1190 | that is already inside a group with a byte-order modifier. |
| 1191 | For example you cannot force little-endianness on a type that |
| 1192 | is inside a big-endian group. |
| 1193 | |
| 1194 | =item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison |
| 1195 | |
| 1196 | (F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons. |
| 1197 | You mentioned $a or $b in the same line as the <=> or cmp operator, |
| 1198 | and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical variable. |
| 1199 | Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the |
| 1200 | lexical variable. |
| 1201 | |
| 1202 | =item Can't use %s ref as %s ref |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 | (F) You've mixed up your reference types. You have to dereference a |
| 1205 | reference of the type needed. You can use the ref() function to |
| 1206 | test the type of the reference, if need be. |
| 1207 | |
| 1208 | =item Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use |
| 1209 | |
| 1210 | (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic |
| 1211 | references are disallowed. See L<perlref>. |
| 1212 | |
| 1213 | =item Can't use subscript on %s |
| 1214 | |
| 1215 | (F) The compiler tried to interpret a bracketed expression as a |
| 1216 | subscript. But to the left of the brackets was an expression that |
| 1217 | didn't look like a hash or array reference, or anything else subscriptable. |
| 1218 | |
| 1219 | =item Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression |
| 1220 | |
| 1221 | (W syntax) In an ordinary expression, backslash is a unary operator that |
| 1222 | creates a reference to its argument. The use of backslash to indicate a |
| 1223 | backreference to a matched substring is valid only as part of a regular |
| 1224 | expression pattern. Trying to do this in ordinary Perl code produces a |
| 1225 | value that prints out looking like SCALAR(0xdecaf). Use the $1 form |
| 1226 | instead. |
| 1227 | |
| 1228 | =item Can't use "when" outside a topicalizer |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 | (F) You have used a when() block that is neither inside a C<foreach> |
| 1231 | loop nor a C<given> block. (Note that this error is issued on exit |
| 1232 | from the C<when> block, so you won't get the error if the match fails, |
| 1233 | or if you use an explicit C<continue>.) |
| 1234 | |
| 1235 | =item Can't weaken a nonreference |
| 1236 | |
| 1237 | (F) You attempted to weaken something that was not a reference. Only |
| 1238 | references can be weakened. |
| 1239 | |
| 1240 | =item Can't x= to read-only value |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | (F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the undefined value) |
| 1243 | with an assignment operator, which implies modifying the value itself. |
| 1244 | Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat that. |
| 1245 | |
| 1246 | =item Character following "\c" must be ASCII |
| 1247 | |
| 1248 | (F)(W deprecated, syntax) In C<\cI<X>>, I<X> must be an ASCII character. |
| 1249 | It is planned to make this fatal in all instances in Perl 5.16. In the |
| 1250 | cases where it isn't fatal, the character this evaluates to is |
| 1251 | derived by exclusive or'ing the code point of this character with 0x40. |
| 1252 | |
| 1253 | Note that non-alphabetic ASCII characters are discouraged here as well. |
| 1254 | |
| 1255 | =item Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | (W pack) You said |
| 1258 | |
| 1259 | pack("C", $x) |
| 1260 | |
| 1261 | where $x is either less than 0 or more than 255; the C<"C"> format is |
| 1262 | only for encoding native operating system characters (ASCII, EBCDIC, |
| 1263 | and so on) and not for Unicode characters, so Perl behaved as if you meant |
| 1264 | |
| 1265 | pack("C", $x & 255) |
| 1266 | |
| 1267 | If you actually want to pack Unicode codepoints, use the C<"U"> format |
| 1268 | instead. |
| 1269 | |
| 1270 | =item Character in 'W' format wrapped in pack |
| 1271 | |
| 1272 | (W pack) You said |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | pack("U0W", $x) |
| 1275 | |
| 1276 | where $x is either less than 0 or more than 255. However, C<U0>-mode expects |
| 1277 | all values to fall in the interval [0, 255], so Perl behaved as if you |
| 1278 | meant: |
| 1279 | |
| 1280 | pack("U0W", $x & 255) |
| 1281 | |
| 1282 | =item Character in 'c' format wrapped in pack |
| 1283 | |
| 1284 | (W pack) You said |
| 1285 | |
| 1286 | pack("c", $x) |
| 1287 | |
| 1288 | where $x is either less than -128 or more than 127; the C<"c"> format |
| 1289 | is only for encoding native operating system characters (ASCII, EBCDIC, |
| 1290 | and so on) and not for Unicode characters, so Perl behaved as if you meant |
| 1291 | |
| 1292 | pack("c", $x & 255); |
| 1293 | |
| 1294 | If you actually want to pack Unicode codepoints, use the C<"U"> format |
| 1295 | instead. |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | =item Character in '%c' format wrapped in unpack |
| 1298 | |
| 1299 | (W unpack) You tried something like |
| 1300 | |
| 1301 | unpack("H", "\x{2a1}") |
| 1302 | |
| 1303 | where the format expects to process a byte (a character with a value |
| 1304 | below 256), but a higher value was provided instead. Perl uses the value |
| 1305 | modulus 256 instead, as if you had provided: |
| 1306 | |
| 1307 | unpack("H", "\x{a1}") |
| 1308 | |
| 1309 | =item Character(s) in '%c' format wrapped in pack |
| 1310 | |
| 1311 | (W pack) You tried something like |
| 1312 | |
| 1313 | pack("u", "\x{1f3}b") |
| 1314 | |
| 1315 | where the format expects to process a sequence of bytes (character with a |
| 1316 | value below 256), but some of the characters had a higher value. Perl |
| 1317 | uses the character values modulus 256 instead, as if you had provided: |
| 1318 | |
| 1319 | pack("u", "\x{f3}b") |
| 1320 | |
| 1321 | =item Character(s) in '%c' format wrapped in unpack |
| 1322 | |
| 1323 | (W unpack) You tried something like |
| 1324 | |
| 1325 | unpack("s", "\x{1f3}b") |
| 1326 | |
| 1327 | where the format expects to process a sequence of bytes (character with a |
| 1328 | value below 256), but some of the characters had a higher value. Perl |
| 1329 | uses the character values modulus 256 instead, as if you had provided: |
| 1330 | |
| 1331 | unpack("s", "\x{f3}b") |
| 1332 | |
| 1333 | =item "\c{" is deprecated and is more clearly written as ";" |
| 1334 | |
| 1335 | (D deprecated, syntax) The C<\cI<X>> construct is intended to be a way |
| 1336 | to specify non-printable characters. You used it with a "{" which |
| 1337 | evaluates to ";", which is printable. It is planned to remove the |
| 1338 | ability to specify a semi-colon this way in Perl 5.16. Just use a |
| 1339 | semi-colon or a backslash-semi-colon without the "\c". |
| 1340 | |
| 1341 | =item "\c%c" is more clearly written simply as "%s" |
| 1342 | |
| 1343 | (W syntax) The C<\cI<X>> construct is intended to be a way to specify |
| 1344 | non-printable characters. You used it for a printable one, which is better |
| 1345 | written as simply itself, perhaps preceded by a backslash for non-word |
| 1346 | characters. |
| 1347 | |
| 1348 | =item close() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 1349 | |
| 1350 | (W unopened) You tried to close a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 1351 | |
| 1352 | =item closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle %s |
| 1353 | |
| 1354 | (W io) The dirhandle you tried to close is either closed or not really |
| 1355 | a dirhandle. Check your control flow. |
| 1356 | |
| 1357 | =item Closure prototype called |
| 1358 | |
| 1359 | (F) If a closure has attributes, the subroutine passed to an attribute |
| 1360 | handler is the prototype that is cloned when a new closure is created. |
| 1361 | This subroutine cannot be called. |
| 1362 | |
| 1363 | =item Code missing after '/' |
| 1364 | |
| 1365 | (F) You had a (sub-)template that ends with a '/'. There must be another |
| 1366 | template code following the slash. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1367 | |
| 1368 | =item Code point 0x%X is not Unicode, may not be portable |
| 1369 | |
| 1370 | =item Code point 0x%X is not Unicode, all \p{} matches fail; all \P{} matches succeed |
| 1371 | |
| 1372 | (W utf8, non_unicode) You had a code point above the Unicode maximum of U+10FFFF. |
| 1373 | |
| 1374 | Perl allows strings to contain a superset of Unicode code |
| 1375 | points, up to the limit of what is storable in an unsigned integer on |
| 1376 | your system, but these may not be accepted by other languages/systems. |
| 1377 | At one time, it was legal in some standards to have code points up to |
| 1378 | 0x7FFF_FFFF, but not higher. Code points above 0xFFFF_FFFF require |
| 1379 | larger than a 32 bit word. |
| 1380 | |
| 1381 | None of the Unicode or Perl-defined properties will match a non-Unicode |
| 1382 | code point. For example, |
| 1383 | |
| 1384 | chr(0x7FF_FFFF) =~ /\p{Any}/ |
| 1385 | |
| 1386 | will not match, because the code point is not in Unicode. But |
| 1387 | |
| 1388 | chr(0x7FF_FFFF) =~ /\P{Any}/ |
| 1389 | |
| 1390 | will match. |
| 1391 | |
| 1392 | This may be counterintuitive at times, as both these fail: |
| 1393 | |
| 1394 | chr(0x110000) =~ \p{ASCII_Hex_Digit=True} # Fails. |
| 1395 | chr(0x110000) =~ \p{ASCII_Hex_Digit=False} # Also fails! |
| 1396 | |
| 1397 | and both these succeed: |
| 1398 | |
| 1399 | chr(0x110000) =~ \P{ASCII_Hex_Digit=True} # Succeeds. |
| 1400 | chr(0x110000) =~ \P{ASCII_Hex_Digit=False} # Also succeeds! |
| 1401 | |
| 1402 | =item %s: Command not found |
| 1403 | |
| 1404 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 1405 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 1406 | |
| 1407 | =item Compilation failed in require |
| 1408 | |
| 1409 | (F) Perl could not compile a file specified in a C<require> statement. |
| 1410 | Perl uses this generic message when none of the errors that it |
| 1411 | encountered were severe enough to halt compilation immediately. |
| 1412 | |
| 1413 | =item Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded |
| 1414 | |
| 1415 | (W regexp) The regular expression engine uses recursion in complex |
| 1416 | situations where back-tracking is required. Recursion depth is limited |
| 1417 | to 32766, or perhaps less in architectures where the stack cannot grow |
| 1418 | arbitrarily. ("Simple" and "medium" situations are handled without |
| 1419 | recursion and are not subject to a limit.) Try shortening the string |
| 1420 | under examination; looping in Perl code (e.g. with C<while>) rather than |
| 1421 | in the regular expression engine; or rewriting the regular expression so |
| 1422 | that it is simpler or backtracks less. (See L<perlfaq2> for information |
| 1423 | on I<Mastering Regular Expressions>.) |
| 1424 | |
| 1425 | =item cond_broadcast() called on unlocked variable |
| 1426 | |
| 1427 | (W threads) Within a thread-enabled program, you tried to call |
| 1428 | cond_broadcast() on a variable which wasn't locked. The cond_broadcast() |
| 1429 | function is used to wake up another thread that is waiting in a |
| 1430 | cond_wait(). To ensure that the signal isn't sent before the other thread |
| 1431 | has a chance to enter the wait, it is usual for the signaling thread |
| 1432 | first to wait for a lock on variable. This lock attempt will only succeed |
| 1433 | after the other thread has entered cond_wait() and thus relinquished the |
| 1434 | lock. |
| 1435 | |
| 1436 | =item cond_signal() called on unlocked variable |
| 1437 | |
| 1438 | (W threads) Within a thread-enabled program, you tried to call |
| 1439 | cond_signal() on a variable which wasn't locked. The cond_signal() |
| 1440 | function is used to wake up another thread that is waiting in a |
| 1441 | cond_wait(). To ensure that the signal isn't sent before the other thread |
| 1442 | has a chance to enter the wait, it is usual for the signaling thread |
| 1443 | first to wait for a lock on variable. This lock attempt will only succeed |
| 1444 | after the other thread has entered cond_wait() and thus relinquished the |
| 1445 | lock. |
| 1446 | |
| 1447 | =item connect() on closed socket %s |
| 1448 | |
| 1449 | (W closed) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket. Did you forget |
| 1450 | to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 1451 | L<perlfunc/connect>. |
| 1452 | |
| 1453 | =item Constant(%s)%s: %s |
| 1454 | |
| 1455 | (F) The parser found inconsistencies either while attempting to define |
| 1456 | an overloaded constant, or when trying to find the character name |
| 1457 | specified in the C<\N{...}> escape. Perhaps you forgot to load the |
| 1458 | corresponding C<overload> or C<charnames> pragma? See L<charnames> and |
| 1459 | L<overload>. |
| 1460 | |
| 1461 | =item Constant(%s)%s: %s in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1462 | |
| 1463 | (F) The parser found inconsistencies while attempting to find |
| 1464 | the character name specified in the C<\N{...}> escape. Perhaps you |
| 1465 | forgot to load the corresponding C<charnames> pragma? |
| 1466 | See L<charnames>. |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 | =item Constant is not %s reference |
| 1469 | |
| 1470 | (F) A constant value (perhaps declared using the C<use constant> pragma) |
| 1471 | is being dereferenced, but it amounts to the wrong type of reference. |
| 1472 | The message indicates the type of reference that was expected. This |
| 1473 | usually indicates a syntax error in dereferencing the constant value. |
| 1474 | See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> and L<constant>. |
| 1475 | |
| 1476 | =item Constant subroutine %s redefined |
| 1477 | |
| 1478 | (W redefine)(S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously |
| 1479 | been eligible for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> |
| 1480 | for commentary and workarounds. |
| 1481 | |
| 1482 | =item Constant subroutine %s undefined |
| 1483 | |
| 1484 | (W misc) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible |
| 1485 | for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and |
| 1486 | workarounds. |
| 1487 | |
| 1488 | =item Copy method did not return a reference |
| 1489 | |
| 1490 | (F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See |
| 1491 | L<overload/Copy Constructor>. |
| 1492 | |
| 1493 | =item &CORE::%s cannot be called directly |
| 1494 | |
| 1495 | (F) You tried to call a subroutine in the C<CORE::> namespace |
| 1496 | with C<&foo> syntax or through a reference. Most subroutines |
| 1497 | in this package cannot yet be called that way, but must be |
| 1498 | called as barewords. Something like this will work: |
| 1499 | |
| 1500 | BEGIN { *shove = \&CORE::push; } |
| 1501 | shove @array, 1,2,3; # pushes on to @array |
| 1502 | |
| 1503 | =item CORE::%s is not a keyword |
| 1504 | |
| 1505 | (F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords. |
| 1506 | |
| 1507 | =item corrupted regexp pointers |
| 1508 | |
| 1509 | (P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular |
| 1510 | expression compiler gave it. |
| 1511 | |
| 1512 | =item corrupted regexp program |
| 1513 | |
| 1514 | (P) The regular expression engine got passed a regexp program without a |
| 1515 | valid magic number. |
| 1516 | |
| 1517 | =item Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%x at 0x%x |
| 1518 | |
| 1519 | (P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure. |
| 1520 | |
| 1521 | =item Count after length/code in unpack |
| 1522 | |
| 1523 | (F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string, but |
| 1524 | you have also specified an explicit size for the string. See |
| 1525 | L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1526 | |
| 1527 | =item Deep recursion on subroutine "%s" |
| 1528 | |
| 1529 | (W recursion) This subroutine has called itself (directly or indirectly) |
| 1530 | 100 times more than it has returned. This probably indicates an |
| 1531 | infinite recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in |
| 1532 | which case it indicates something else. |
| 1533 | |
| 1534 | This threshold can be changed from 100, by recompiling the F<perl> binary, |
| 1535 | setting the C pre-processor macro C<PERL_SUB_DEPTH_WARN> to the desired value. |
| 1536 | |
| 1537 | =item defined(@array) is deprecated |
| 1538 | |
| 1539 | (D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it |
| 1540 | checks for an undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the |
| 1541 | array is empty, just use C<if (@array) { # not empty }> for example. |
| 1542 | |
| 1543 | =item defined(%hash) is deprecated |
| 1544 | |
| 1545 | (D deprecated) C<defined()> is not usually right on hashes and has been |
| 1546 | discouraged since 5.004. |
| 1547 | |
| 1548 | Although C<defined %hash> is false on a plain not-yet-used hash, it |
| 1549 | becomes true in several non-obvious circumstances, including iterators, |
| 1550 | weak references, stash names, even remaining true after C<undef %hash>. |
| 1551 | These things make C<defined %hash> fairly useless in practice. |
| 1552 | |
| 1553 | If a check for non-empty is what you wanted then just put it in boolean |
| 1554 | context (see L<perldata/Scalar values>): |
| 1555 | |
| 1556 | if (%hash) { |
| 1557 | # not empty |
| 1558 | } |
| 1559 | |
| 1560 | If you had C<defined %Foo::Bar::QUUX> to check whether such a package |
| 1561 | variable exists then that's never really been reliable, and isn't |
| 1562 | a good way to enquire about the features of a package, or whether |
| 1563 | it's loaded, etc. |
| 1564 | |
| 1565 | |
| 1566 | =item (?(DEFINE)....) does not allow branches in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1567 | |
| 1568 | (F) You used something like C<(?(DEFINE)...|..)> which is illegal. The |
| 1569 | most likely cause of this error is that you left out a parenthesis inside |
| 1570 | of the C<....> part. |
| 1571 | |
| 1572 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 1573 | discovered. |
| 1574 | |
| 1575 | =item %s defines neither package nor VERSION--version check failed |
| 1576 | |
| 1577 | (F) You said something like "use Module 42" but in the Module file |
| 1578 | there are neither package declarations nor a C<$VERSION>. |
| 1579 | |
| 1580 | =item Delimiter for here document is too long |
| 1581 | |
| 1582 | (F) In a here document construct like C<<<FOO>, the label C<FOO> is too |
| 1583 | long for Perl to handle. You have to be seriously twisted to write code |
| 1584 | that triggers this error. |
| 1585 | |
| 1586 | =item Deprecated character in \N{...}; marked by <-- HERE in \N{%s<-- HERE %s |
| 1587 | |
| 1588 | (D deprecated) Just about anything is legal for the C<...> in C<\N{...}>. |
| 1589 | But starting in 5.12, non-reasonable ones that don't look like names |
| 1590 | are deprecated. A reasonable name begins with an alphabetic character |
| 1591 | and continues with any combination of alphanumerics, dashes, spaces, |
| 1592 | parentheses or colons. |
| 1593 | |
| 1594 | =item Deprecated use of my() in false conditional |
| 1595 | |
| 1596 | (D deprecated) You used a declaration similar to C<my $x if 0>. |
| 1597 | There has been a long-standing bug in Perl that causes a lexical variable |
| 1598 | not to be cleared at scope exit when its declaration includes a false |
| 1599 | conditional. Some people have exploited this bug to achieve a kind of |
| 1600 | static variable. Since we intend to fix this bug, we don't want people |
| 1601 | relying on this behavior. You can achieve a similar static effect by |
| 1602 | declaring the variable in a separate block outside the function, eg |
| 1603 | |
| 1604 | sub f { my $x if 0; return $x++ } |
| 1605 | |
| 1606 | becomes |
| 1607 | |
| 1608 | { my $x; sub f { return $x++ } } |
| 1609 | |
| 1610 | Beginning with perl 5.9.4, you can also use C<state> variables to |
| 1611 | have lexicals that are initialized only once (see L<feature>): |
| 1612 | |
| 1613 | sub f { state $x; return $x++ } |
| 1614 | |
| 1615 | =item DESTROY created new reference to dead object '%s' |
| 1616 | |
| 1617 | (F) A DESTROY() method created a new reference to the object which is |
| 1618 | just being DESTROYed. Perl is confused, and prefers to abort rather than |
| 1619 | to create a dangling reference. |
| 1620 | |
| 1621 | =item Did not produce a valid header |
| 1622 | |
| 1623 | See Server error. |
| 1624 | |
| 1625 | =item %s did not return a true value |
| 1626 | |
| 1627 | (F) A required (or used) file must return a true value to indicate that |
| 1628 | it compiled correctly and ran its initialization code correctly. It's |
| 1629 | traditional to end such a file with a "1;", though any true value would |
| 1630 | do. See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 1631 | |
| 1632 | =item (Did you mean &%s instead?) |
| 1633 | |
| 1634 | (W misc) You probably referred to an imported subroutine &FOO as $FOO or |
| 1635 | some such. |
| 1636 | |
| 1637 | =item (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?) |
| 1638 | |
| 1639 | (W misc) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global |
| 1640 | variable. You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which |
| 1641 | seems superfluous. |
| 1642 | |
| 1643 | =item (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?) |
| 1644 | |
| 1645 | (W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or |
| 1646 | @hash{@keys}. On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got |
| 1647 | carried away. |
| 1648 | |
| 1649 | =item Died |
| 1650 | |
| 1651 | (F) You passed die() an empty string (the equivalent of C<die "">) or |
| 1652 | you called it with no args and C<$@> was empty. |
| 1653 | |
| 1654 | =item Document contains no data |
| 1655 | |
| 1656 | See Server error. |
| 1657 | |
| 1658 | =item %s does not define %s::VERSION--version check failed |
| 1659 | |
| 1660 | (F) You said something like "use Module 42" but the Module did not |
| 1661 | define a C<$VERSION.> |
| 1662 | |
| 1663 | =item '/' does not take a repeat count |
| 1664 | |
| 1665 | (F) You cannot put a repeat count of any kind right after the '/' code. |
| 1666 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1667 | |
| 1668 | =item Don't know how to handle magic of type '%s' |
| 1669 | |
| 1670 | (P) The internal handling of magical variables has been cursed. |
| 1671 | |
| 1672 | =item do_study: out of memory |
| 1673 | |
| 1674 | (P) This should have been caught by safemalloc() instead. |
| 1675 | |
| 1676 | =item (Do you need to predeclare %s?) |
| 1677 | |
| 1678 | (S syntax) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 1679 | "%s found where operator expected". It often means a subroutine or module |
| 1680 | name is being referenced that hasn't been declared yet. This may be |
| 1681 | because of ordering problems in your file, or because of a missing |
| 1682 | "sub", "package", "require", or "use" statement. If you're referencing |
| 1683 | something that isn't defined yet, you don't actually have to define the |
| 1684 | subroutine or package before the current location. You can use an empty |
| 1685 | "sub foo;" or "package FOO;" to enter a "forward" declaration. |
| 1686 | |
| 1687 | =item dump() better written as CORE::dump() |
| 1688 | |
| 1689 | (W misc) You used the obsolescent C<dump()> built-in function, without fully |
| 1690 | qualifying it as C<CORE::dump()>. Maybe it's a typo. See L<perlfunc/dump>. |
| 1691 | |
| 1692 | =item dump is not supported |
| 1693 | |
| 1694 | (F) Your machine doesn't support dump/undump. |
| 1695 | |
| 1696 | =item Duplicate free() ignored |
| 1697 | |
| 1698 | (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had |
| 1699 | already been freed. |
| 1700 | |
| 1701 | =item Duplicate modifier '%c' after '%c' in %s |
| 1702 | |
| 1703 | (W) You have applied the same modifier more than once after a type |
| 1704 | in a pack template. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1705 | |
| 1706 | =item elseif should be elsif |
| 1707 | |
| 1708 | (S syntax) There is no keyword "elseif" in Perl because Larry thinks it's |
| 1709 | ugly. Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call a method named |
| 1710 | "elseif" for the class returned by the following block. This is |
| 1711 | unlikely to be what you want. |
| 1712 | |
| 1713 | =item Empty %s |
| 1714 | |
| 1715 | (F) C<\p> and C<\P> are used to introduce a named Unicode property, as |
| 1716 | described in L<perlunicode> and L<perlre>. You used C<\p> or C<\P> in |
| 1717 | a regular expression without specifying the property name. |
| 1718 | |
| 1719 | =item entering effective %s failed |
| 1720 | |
| 1721 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and |
| 1722 | effective uids or gids failed. |
| 1723 | |
| 1724 | =item %ENV is aliased to %s |
| 1725 | |
| 1726 | (F) You're running under taint mode, and the C<%ENV> variable has been |
| 1727 | aliased to another hash, so it doesn't reflect anymore the state of the |
| 1728 | program's environment. This is potentially insecure. |
| 1729 | |
| 1730 | =item Error converting file specification %s |
| 1731 | |
| 1732 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Because Perl may have to deal with file |
| 1733 | specifications in either VMS or Unix syntax, it converts them to a |
| 1734 | single form when it must operate on them directly. Either you've passed |
| 1735 | an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the |
| 1736 | conversion routines don't handle. Drat. |
| 1737 | |
| 1738 | =item %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression |
| 1739 | |
| 1740 | (F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular |
| 1741 | expression that contains the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, which |
| 1742 | is unsafe. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>, and L<perlsec>. |
| 1743 | |
| 1744 | =item %s: Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval' |
| 1745 | |
| 1746 | (F) Perl tried to compile a regular expression containing the |
| 1747 | C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion at run time, as it would when the |
| 1748 | pattern contains interpolated values. Since that is a security risk, |
| 1749 | it is not allowed. If you insist, you may still do this by using the |
| 1750 | C<re 'eval'> pragma or by explicitly building the pattern from an |
| 1751 | interpolated string at run time and using that in an eval(). See |
| 1752 | L<perlre/(?{ code })>. |
| 1753 | |
| 1754 | =item %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval' |
| 1755 | |
| 1756 | (F) A regular expression contained the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width |
| 1757 | assertion, but that construct is only allowed when the C<use re 'eval'> |
| 1758 | pragma is in effect. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>. |
| 1759 | |
| 1760 | =item EVAL without pos change exceeded limit in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1761 | |
| 1762 | (F) You used a pattern that nested too many EVAL calls without consuming |
| 1763 | any text. Restructure the pattern so that text is consumed. |
| 1764 | |
| 1765 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 1766 | discovered. |
| 1767 | |
| 1768 | =item Excessively long <> operator |
| 1769 | |
| 1770 | (F) The contents of a <> operator may not exceed the maximum size of a |
| 1771 | Perl identifier. If you're just trying to glob a long list of |
| 1772 | filenames, try using the glob() operator, or put the filenames into a |
| 1773 | variable and glob that. |
| 1774 | |
| 1775 | =item exec? I'm not *that* kind of operating system |
| 1776 | |
| 1777 | (F) The C<exec> function is not implemented on some systems, e.g., Symbian |
| 1778 | OS. See L<perlport>. |
| 1779 | |
| 1780 | =item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors. |
| 1781 | |
| 1782 | (F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails. |
| 1783 | |
| 1784 | =item Exiting eval via %s |
| 1785 | |
| 1786 | (W exiting) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means, such as a |
| 1787 | goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1788 | |
| 1789 | =item Exiting format via %s |
| 1790 | |
| 1791 | (W exiting) You are exiting a format by unconventional means, such as a |
| 1792 | goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1793 | |
| 1794 | =item Exiting pseudo-block via %s |
| 1795 | |
| 1796 | (W exiting) You are exiting a rather special block construct (like a |
| 1797 | sort block or subroutine) by unconventional means, such as a goto, or a |
| 1798 | loop control statement. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 1799 | |
| 1800 | =item Exiting subroutine via %s |
| 1801 | |
| 1802 | (W exiting) You are exiting a subroutine by unconventional means, such |
| 1803 | as a goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1804 | |
| 1805 | =item Exiting substitution via %s |
| 1806 | |
| 1807 | (W exiting) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional means, such |
| 1808 | as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1809 | |
| 1810 | =item Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main) |
| 1811 | |
| 1812 | (W misc) You are blessing a reference to a zero length string. This has |
| 1813 | the effect of blessing the reference into the package main. This is |
| 1814 | usually not what you want. Consider providing a default target package, |
| 1815 | e.g. bless($ref, $p || 'MyPackage'); |
| 1816 | |
| 1817 | =item %s: Expression syntax |
| 1818 | |
| 1819 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 1820 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 1821 | |
| 1822 | =item %s failed--call queue aborted |
| 1823 | |
| 1824 | (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a UNITCHECK, |
| 1825 | CHECK, INIT, or END subroutine. Processing of the remainder of the |
| 1826 | queue of such routines has been prematurely ended. |
| 1827 | |
| 1828 | =item False [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1829 | |
| 1830 | (W regexp) A character class range must start and end at a literal |
| 1831 | character, not another character class like C<\d> or C<[:alpha:]>. The "-" |
| 1832 | in your false range is interpreted as a literal "-". Consider quoting the |
| 1833 | "-", "\-". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 1834 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 1835 | |
| 1836 | =item Fatal VMS error (status=%d) at %s, line %d |
| 1837 | |
| 1838 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Something untoward happened in a VMS |
| 1839 | system service or RTL routine; Perl's exit status should provide more |
| 1840 | details. The filename in "at %s" and the line number in "line %d" tell |
| 1841 | you which section of the Perl source code is distressed. |
| 1842 | |
| 1843 | =item fcntl is not implemented |
| 1844 | |
| 1845 | (F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement fcntl(). What is this, a |
| 1846 | PDP-11 or something? |
| 1847 | |
| 1848 | =item FETCHSIZE returned a negative value |
| 1849 | |
| 1850 | (F) A tied array claimed to have a negative number of elements, which |
| 1851 | is not possible. |
| 1852 | |
| 1853 | =item Field too wide in 'u' format in pack |
| 1854 | |
| 1855 | (W pack) Each line in an uuencoded string start with a length indicator |
| 1856 | which can't encode values above 63. So there is no point in asking for |
| 1857 | a line length bigger than that. Perl will behave as if you specified |
| 1858 | C<u63> as the format. |
| 1859 | |
| 1860 | =item Filehandle %s opened only for input |
| 1861 | |
| 1862 | (W io) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If you intended |
| 1863 | it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with "+<" or |
| 1864 | "+>" or "+>>" instead of with "<" or nothing. If you intended only to |
| 1865 | write the file, use ">" or ">>". See L<perlfunc/open>. |
| 1866 | |
| 1867 | =item Filehandle %s opened only for output |
| 1868 | |
| 1869 | (W io) You tried to read from a filehandle opened only for writing, If |
| 1870 | you intended it to be a read/write filehandle, you needed to open it |
| 1871 | with "+<" or "+>" or "+>>" instead of with ">". If you intended only to |
| 1872 | read from the file, use "<". See L<perlfunc/open>. Another possibility |
| 1873 | is that you attempted to open filedescriptor 0 (also known as STDIN) for |
| 1874 | output (maybe you closed STDIN earlier?). |
| 1875 | |
| 1876 | =item Filehandle %s reopened as %s only for input |
| 1877 | |
| 1878 | (W io) You opened for reading a filehandle that got the same filehandle id |
| 1879 | as STDOUT or STDERR. This occurred because you closed STDOUT or STDERR |
| 1880 | previously. |
| 1881 | |
| 1882 | =item Filehandle STDIN reopened as %s only for output |
| 1883 | |
| 1884 | (W io) You opened for writing a filehandle that got the same filehandle id |
| 1885 | as STDIN. This occurred because you closed STDIN previously. |
| 1886 | |
| 1887 | =item Final $ should be \$ or $name |
| 1888 | |
| 1889 | (F) You must now decide whether the final $ in a string was meant to be |
| 1890 | a literal dollar sign, or was meant to introduce a variable name that |
| 1891 | happens to be missing. So you have to put either the backslash or the |
| 1892 | name. |
| 1893 | |
| 1894 | =item flock() on closed filehandle %s |
| 1895 | |
| 1896 | (W closed) The filehandle you're attempting to flock() got itself closed |
| 1897 | some time before now. Check your control flow. flock() operates on |
| 1898 | filehandles. Are you attempting to call flock() on a dirhandle by the |
| 1899 | same name? |
| 1900 | |
| 1901 | =item Format not terminated |
| 1902 | |
| 1903 | (F) A format must be terminated by a line with a solitary dot. Perl got |
| 1904 | to the end of your file without finding such a line. |
| 1905 | |
| 1906 | =item Format %s redefined |
| 1907 | |
| 1908 | (W redefine) You redefined a format. To suppress this warning, say |
| 1909 | |
| 1910 | { |
| 1911 | no warnings 'redefine'; |
| 1912 | eval "format NAME =..."; |
| 1913 | } |
| 1914 | |
| 1915 | =item Found = in conditional, should be == |
| 1916 | |
| 1917 | (W syntax) You said |
| 1918 | |
| 1919 | if ($foo = 123) |
| 1920 | |
| 1921 | when you meant |
| 1922 | |
| 1923 | if ($foo == 123) |
| 1924 | |
| 1925 | (or something like that). |
| 1926 | |
| 1927 | =item %s found where operator expected |
| 1928 | |
| 1929 | (S syntax) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator. |
| 1930 | If it sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an |
| 1931 | operator, it gives you this warning. Usually it indicates that an |
| 1932 | operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon. |
| 1933 | |
| 1934 | =item gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s" |
| 1935 | |
| 1936 | (S) A warning from the GDBM_File extension that a store failed. |
| 1937 | |
| 1938 | =item gethostent not implemented |
| 1939 | |
| 1940 | (F) Your C library apparently doesn't implement gethostent(), probably |
| 1941 | because if it did, it'd feel morally obligated to return every hostname |
| 1942 | on the Internet. |
| 1943 | |
| 1944 | =item get%sname() on closed socket %s |
| 1945 | |
| 1946 | (W closed) You tried to get a socket or peer socket name on a closed |
| 1947 | socket. Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call? |
| 1948 | |
| 1949 | =item getpwnam returned invalid UIC %#o for user "%s" |
| 1950 | |
| 1951 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. The call to C<sys$getuai> underlying the |
| 1952 | C<getpwnam> operator returned an invalid UIC. |
| 1953 | |
| 1954 | =item getsockopt() on closed socket %s |
| 1955 | |
| 1956 | (W closed) You tried to get a socket option on a closed socket. Did you |
| 1957 | forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 1958 | L<perlfunc/getsockopt>. |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 | =item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name |
| 1961 | |
| 1962 | (F) You've said "use strict" or "use strict vars", which indicates |
| 1963 | that all variables must either be lexically scoped (using "my" or "state"), |
| 1964 | declared beforehand using "our", or explicitly qualified to say |
| 1965 | which package the global variable is in (using "::"). |
| 1966 | |
| 1967 | =item glob failed (%s) |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | (W glob) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for |
| 1970 | C<glob> and C<< <*.c> >>. Usually, this means that you supplied a |
| 1971 | C<glob> pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a |
| 1972 | nonzero status. If the message indicates that the abnormal exit |
| 1973 | resulted in a coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) is |
| 1974 | broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in |
| 1975 | config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it |
| 1976 | were csh (e.g. C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them all |
| 1977 | empty (except that C<d_csh> should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will |
| 1978 | think csh is missing. In either case, after editing config.sh, run |
| 1979 | C<./Configure -S> and rebuild Perl. |
| 1980 | |
| 1981 | =item Glob not terminated |
| 1982 | |
| 1983 | (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting |
| 1984 | a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and |
| 1985 | not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out |
| 1986 | earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". |
| 1987 | |
| 1988 | =item gmtime(%f) too large |
| 1989 | |
| 1990 | (W overflow) You called C<gmtime> with a number that was larger than |
| 1991 | it can reliably handle and C<gmtime> probably returned the wrong |
| 1992 | date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special |
| 1993 | not-a-number value). |
| 1994 | |
| 1995 | =item gmtime(%f) too small |
| 1996 | |
| 1997 | (W overflow) You called C<gmtime> with a number that was smaller than |
| 1998 | it can reliably handle and C<gmtime> probably returned the wrong |
| 1999 | date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special |
| 2000 | not-a-number value). |
| 2001 | |
| 2002 | =item Got an error from DosAllocMem |
| 2003 | |
| 2004 | (P) An error peculiar to OS/2. Most probably you're using an obsolete |
| 2005 | version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway. |
| 2006 | |
| 2007 | =item goto must have label |
| 2008 | |
| 2009 | (F) Unlike with "next" or "last", you're not allowed to goto an |
| 2010 | unspecified destination. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 2011 | |
| 2012 | =item ()-group starts with a count |
| 2013 | |
| 2014 | (F) A ()-group started with a count. A count is supposed to follow |
| 2015 | something: a template character or a ()-group. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2016 | |
| 2017 | =item %s had compilation errors. |
| 2018 | |
| 2019 | (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails. |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 | =item Had to create %s unexpectedly |
| 2022 | |
| 2023 | (S internal) A routine asked for a symbol from a symbol table that ought |
| 2024 | to have existed already, but for some reason it didn't, and had to be |
| 2025 | created on an emergency basis to prevent a core dump. |
| 2026 | |
| 2027 | =item Hash %%s missing the % in argument %d of %s() |
| 2028 | |
| 2029 | (D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the % on hash names in some |
| 2030 | spots. This is now heavily deprecated. |
| 2031 | |
| 2032 | =item %s has too many errors |
| 2033 | |
| 2034 | (F) The parser has given up trying to parse the program after 10 errors. |
| 2035 | Further error messages would likely be uninformative. |
| 2036 | |
| 2037 | =item Having no space between pattern and following word is deprecated |
| 2038 | |
| 2039 | (D syntax) |
| 2040 | |
| 2041 | You had a word that isn't a regex modifier immediately following a |
| 2042 | pattern without an intervening space. If you are trying to use the C</le> |
| 2043 | flags on a substitution, use C</el> instead. Otherwise, add white space |
| 2044 | between the pattern and following word to eliminate the warning. As an |
| 2045 | example of the latter, the two constructs: |
| 2046 | |
| 2047 | $a =~ m/$foo/sand $bar |
| 2048 | $a =~ m/$foo/s and $bar |
| 2049 | |
| 2050 | both currently mean the same thing, but it is planned to disallow the first |
| 2051 | form in Perl 5.16. And, |
| 2052 | |
| 2053 | $a =~ m/$foo/and $bar |
| 2054 | |
| 2055 | will be disallowed too. |
| 2056 | |
| 2057 | =item Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable |
| 2058 | |
| 2059 | (W portable) The hexadecimal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 2060 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 2061 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 2062 | |
| 2063 | =item Identifier too long |
| 2064 | |
| 2065 | (F) Perl limits identifiers (names for variables, functions, etc.) to |
| 2066 | about 250 characters for simple names, and somewhat more for compound |
| 2067 | names (like C<$A::B>). You've exceeded Perl's limits. Future versions |
| 2068 | of Perl are likely to eliminate these arbitrary limitations. |
| 2069 | |
| 2070 | =item Ignoring zero length \N{} in character class |
| 2071 | |
| 2072 | (W) Named Unicode character escapes (\N{...}) may return a |
| 2073 | zero length sequence. When such an escape is used in a character class |
| 2074 | its behaviour is not well defined. Check that the correct escape has |
| 2075 | been used, and the correct charname handler is in scope. |
| 2076 | |
| 2077 | =item Illegal binary digit %s |
| 2078 | |
| 2079 | (F) You used a digit other than 0 or 1 in a binary number. |
| 2080 | |
| 2081 | =item Illegal binary digit %s ignored |
| 2082 | |
| 2083 | (W digit) You may have tried to use a digit other than 0 or 1 in a |
| 2084 | binary number. Interpretation of the binary number stopped before the |
| 2085 | offending digit. |
| 2086 | |
| 2087 | =item Illegal character after '_' in prototype for %s : %s |
| 2088 | |
| 2089 | (W illegalproto) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration. |
| 2090 | Legal characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, \, and +. |
| 2091 | |
| 2092 | =item Illegal character \%o (carriage return) |
| 2093 | |
| 2094 | (F) Perl normally treats carriage returns in the program text as it |
| 2095 | would any other whitespace, which means you should never see this error |
| 2096 | when Perl was built using standard options. For some reason, your |
| 2097 | version of Perl appears to have been built without this support. Talk |
| 2098 | to your Perl administrator. |
| 2099 | |
| 2100 | =item Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s |
| 2101 | |
| 2102 | (W illegalproto) An illegal character was found in a prototype declaration. |
| 2103 | Legal characters in prototypes are $, @, %, *, ;, [, ], &, \, and +. |
| 2104 | |
| 2105 | =item Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine |
| 2106 | |
| 2107 | (F) When using the C<sub> keyword to construct an anonymous subroutine, |
| 2108 | you must always specify a block of code. See L<perlsub>. |
| 2109 | |
| 2110 | =item Illegal declaration of subroutine %s |
| 2111 | |
| 2112 | (F) A subroutine was not declared correctly. See L<perlsub>. |
| 2113 | |
| 2114 | =item Illegal division by zero |
| 2115 | |
| 2116 | (F) You tried to divide a number by 0. Either something was wrong in |
| 2117 | your logic, or you need to put a conditional in to guard against |
| 2118 | meaningless input. |
| 2119 | |
| 2120 | =item Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored |
| 2121 | |
| 2122 | (W digit) You may have tried to use a character other than 0 - 9 or |
| 2123 | A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number. Interpretation of the hexadecimal |
| 2124 | number stopped before the illegal character. |
| 2125 | |
| 2126 | =item Illegal modulus zero |
| 2127 | |
| 2128 | (F) You tried to divide a number by 0 to get the remainder. Most |
| 2129 | numbers don't take to this kindly. |
| 2130 | |
| 2131 | =item Illegal number of bits in vec |
| 2132 | |
| 2133 | (F) The number of bits in vec() (the third argument) must be a power of |
| 2134 | two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that). |
| 2135 | |
| 2136 | =item Illegal octal digit %s |
| 2137 | |
| 2138 | (F) You used an 8 or 9 in an octal number. |
| 2139 | |
| 2140 | =item Illegal octal digit %s ignored |
| 2141 | |
| 2142 | (W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in an octal number. |
| 2143 | Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9. |
| 2144 | |
| 2145 | =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: -%c |
| 2146 | |
| 2147 | (X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the |
| 2148 | following switches: B<-[CDIMUdmtw]>. |
| 2149 | |
| 2150 | =item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s" |
| 2151 | |
| 2152 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the CRTL's |
| 2153 | internal environ array, and encountered an element without the C<=> |
| 2154 | delimiter used to separate keys from values. The element is ignored. |
| 2155 | |
| 2156 | =item Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s| |
| 2157 | |
| 2158 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read a logical |
| 2159 | name or CLI symbol definition when preparing to iterate over %ENV, and |
| 2160 | didn't see the expected delimiter between key and value, so the line was |
| 2161 | ignored. |
| 2162 | |
| 2163 | =item (in cleanup) %s |
| 2164 | |
| 2165 | (W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised |
| 2166 | the indicated exception. Since destructors are usually called by the |
| 2167 | system at arbitrary points during execution, and often a vast number of |
| 2168 | times, the warning is issued only once for any number of failures that |
| 2169 | would otherwise result in the same message being repeated. |
| 2170 | |
| 2171 | Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could |
| 2172 | also result in this warning. See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>. |
| 2173 | |
| 2174 | =item Inconsistent hierarchy during C3 merge of class '%s': merging failed on parent '%s' |
| 2175 | |
| 2176 | (F) The method resolution order (MRO) of the given class is not |
| 2177 | C3-consistent, and you have enabled the C3 MRO for this class. See the C3 |
| 2178 | documentation in L<mro> for more information. |
| 2179 | |
| 2180 | =item In EBCDIC the v-string components cannot exceed 2147483647 |
| 2181 | |
| 2182 | (F) An error peculiar to EBCDIC. Internally, v-strings are stored as |
| 2183 | Unicode code points, and encoded in EBCDIC as UTF-EBCDIC. The UTF-EBCDIC |
| 2184 | encoding is limited to code points no larger than 2147483647 (0x7FFFFFFF). |
| 2185 | |
| 2186 | =item Infinite recursion in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2187 | |
| 2188 | (F) You used a pattern that references itself without consuming any input |
| 2189 | text. You should check the pattern to ensure that recursive patterns |
| 2190 | either consume text or fail. |
| 2191 | |
| 2192 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 2193 | discovered. |
| 2194 | |
| 2195 | =item Initialization of state variables in list context currently forbidden |
| 2196 | |
| 2197 | (F) Currently the implementation of "state" only permits the initialization |
| 2198 | of scalar variables in scalar context. Re-write C<state ($a) = 42> as |
| 2199 | C<state $a = 42> to change from list to scalar context. Constructions such |
| 2200 | as C<state (@a) = foo()> will be supported in a future perl release. |
| 2201 | |
| 2202 | =item Insecure dependency in %s |
| 2203 | |
| 2204 | (F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like. |
| 2205 | The tainting mechanism is turned on when you're running setuid or |
| 2206 | setgid, or when you specify B<-T> to turn it on explicitly. The |
| 2207 | tainting mechanism labels all data that's derived directly or indirectly |
| 2208 | from the user, who is considered to be unworthy of your trust. If any |
| 2209 | such data is used in a "dangerous" operation, you get this error. See |
| 2210 | L<perlsec> for more information. |
| 2211 | |
| 2212 | =item Insecure directory in %s |
| 2213 | |
| 2214 | (F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or |
| 2215 | setgid script if C<$ENV{PATH}> contains a directory that is writable by |
| 2216 | the world. Also, the PATH must not contain any relative directory. |
| 2217 | See L<perlsec>. |
| 2218 | |
| 2219 | =item Insecure $ENV{%s} while running %s |
| 2220 | |
| 2221 | (F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or |
| 2222 | setgid script if any of C<$ENV{PATH}>, C<$ENV{IFS}>, C<$ENV{CDPATH}>, |
| 2223 | C<$ENV{ENV}>, C<$ENV{BASH_ENV}> or C<$ENV{TERM}> are derived from data |
| 2224 | supplied (or potentially supplied) by the user. The script must set |
| 2225 | the path to a known value, using trustworthy data. See L<perlsec>. |
| 2226 | |
| 2227 | =item Insecure user-defined property %s |
| 2228 | |
| 2229 | (F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular |
| 2230 | expression that contains a call to a user-defined character property |
| 2231 | function, i.e. C<\p{IsFoo}> or C<\p{InFoo}>. |
| 2232 | See L<perlunicode/User-Defined Character Properties> and L<perlsec>. |
| 2233 | |
| 2234 | =item Integer overflow in format string for %s |
| 2235 | |
| 2236 | (F) The indexes and widths specified in the format string of C<printf()> |
| 2237 | or C<sprintf()> are too large. The numbers must not overflow the size of |
| 2238 | integers for your architecture. |
| 2239 | |
| 2240 | =item Integer overflow in %s number |
| 2241 | |
| 2242 | (W overflow) The hexadecimal, octal or binary number you have specified |
| 2243 | either as a literal or as an argument to hex() or oct() is too big for |
| 2244 | your architecture, and has been converted to a floating point number. |
| 2245 | On a 32-bit architecture the largest hexadecimal, octal or binary number |
| 2246 | representable without overflow is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or |
| 2247 | 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 respectively. Note that Perl |
| 2248 | transparently promotes all numbers to a floating point representation |
| 2249 | internally--subject to loss of precision errors in subsequent |
| 2250 | operations. |
| 2251 | |
| 2252 | =item Integer overflow in version |
| 2253 | |
| 2254 | (F) Some portion of a version initialization is too large for the |
| 2255 | size of integers for your architecture. This is not a warning |
| 2256 | because there is no rational reason for a version to try and use a |
| 2257 | element larger than typically 2**32. This is usually caused by |
| 2258 | trying to use some odd mathematical operation as a version, like |
| 2259 | 100/9. |
| 2260 | |
| 2261 | =item Internal disaster in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2262 | |
| 2263 | (P) Something went badly wrong in the regular expression parser. |
| 2264 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 2265 | discovered. |
| 2266 | |
| 2267 | =item Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks |
| 2268 | |
| 2269 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl keeps track of the number of times |
| 2270 | you've called C<fork> and C<exec>, to determine whether the current call |
| 2271 | to C<exec> should affect the current script or a subprocess (see |
| 2272 | L<perlvms/"exec LIST">). Somehow, this count has become scrambled, so |
| 2273 | Perl is making a guess and treating this C<exec> as a request to |
| 2274 | terminate the Perl script and execute the specified command. |
| 2275 | |
| 2276 | =item Internal urp in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2277 | |
| 2278 | (P) Something went badly awry in the regular expression parser. The |
| 2279 | <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 2280 | discovered. |
| 2281 | |
| 2282 | =item %s (...) interpreted as function |
| 2283 | |
| 2284 | (W syntax) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator |
| 2285 | followed by parentheses turns into a function, with all the list |
| 2286 | operators arguments found inside the parentheses. See |
| 2287 | L<perlop/Terms and List Operators (Leftward)>. |
| 2288 | |
| 2289 | =item Invalid %s attribute: %s |
| 2290 | |
| 2291 | (F) The indicated attribute for a subroutine or variable was not recognized |
| 2292 | by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. |
| 2293 | |
| 2294 | =item Invalid %s attributes: %s |
| 2295 | |
| 2296 | (F) The indicated attributes for a subroutine or variable were not |
| 2297 | recognized by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. |
| 2298 | |
| 2299 | =item Invalid conversion in %s: "%s" |
| 2300 | |
| 2301 | (W printf) Perl does not understand the given format conversion. See |
| 2302 | L<perlfunc/sprintf>. |
| 2303 | |
| 2304 | =item Invalid escape in the specified encoding in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2305 | |
| 2306 | (W regexp) The numeric escape (for example C<\xHH>) of value < 256 |
| 2307 | didn't correspond to a single character through the conversion |
| 2308 | from the encoding specified by the encoding pragma. |
| 2309 | The escape was replaced with REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (U+FFFD) instead. |
| 2310 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 2311 | escape was discovered. |
| 2312 | |
| 2313 | =item Invalid hexadecimal number in \N{U+...} |
| 2314 | |
| 2315 | (F) The character constant represented by C<...> is not a valid hexadecimal |
| 2316 | number. Either it is empty, or you tried to use a character other than |
| 2317 | 0 - 9 or A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number. |
| 2318 | |
| 2319 | =item Invalid mro name: '%s' |
| 2320 | |
| 2321 | (F) You tried to C<mro::set_mro("classname", "foo")> or C<use mro 'foo'>, |
| 2322 | where C<foo> is not a valid method resolution order (MRO). Currently, |
| 2323 | the only valid ones supported are C<dfs> and C<c3>, unless you have loaded |
| 2324 | a module that is a MRO plugin. See L<mro> and L<perlmroapi>. |
| 2325 | |
| 2326 | =item Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2327 | |
| 2328 | (F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character |
| 2329 | greater than the maximum character. One possibility is that you forgot the |
| 2330 | C<{}> from your ending C<\x{}> - C<\x> without the curly braces can go only |
| 2331 | up to C<ff>. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 2332 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 2333 | |
| 2334 | =item Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator |
| 2335 | |
| 2336 | (F) The range specified in the tr/// or y/// operator had a minimum |
| 2337 | character greater than the maximum character. See L<perlop>. |
| 2338 | |
| 2339 | =item Invalid separator character %s in attribute list |
| 2340 | |
| 2341 | (F) Something other than a colon or whitespace was seen between the |
| 2342 | elements of an attribute list. If the previous attribute had a |
| 2343 | parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that list was terminated too soon. |
| 2344 | See L<attributes>. |
| 2345 | |
| 2346 | =item Invalid separator character %s in PerlIO layer specification %s |
| 2347 | |
| 2348 | (W layer) When pushing layers onto the Perl I/O system, something other |
| 2349 | than a colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of a layer list. |
| 2350 | If the previous attribute had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that |
| 2351 | list was terminated too soon. |
| 2352 | |
| 2353 | =item Invalid strict version format (%s) |
| 2354 | |
| 2355 | (F) A version number did not meet the "strict" criteria for versions. |
| 2356 | A "strict" version number is a positive decimal number (integer or |
| 2357 | decimal-fraction) without exponentiation or else a dotted-decimal |
| 2358 | v-string with a leading 'v' character and at least three components. |
| 2359 | The parenthesized text indicates which criteria were not met. |
| 2360 | See the L<version> module for more details on allowed version formats. |
| 2361 | |
| 2362 | =item Invalid type '%s' in %s |
| 2363 | |
| 2364 | (F) The given character is not a valid pack or unpack type. |
| 2365 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2366 | (W) The given character is not a valid pack or unpack type but used to be |
| 2367 | silently ignored. |
| 2368 | |
| 2369 | =item Invalid version format (%s) |
| 2370 | |
| 2371 | (F) A version number did not meet the "lax" criteria for versions. |
| 2372 | A "lax" version number is a positive decimal number (integer or |
| 2373 | decimal-fraction) without exponentiation or else a dotted-decimal |
| 2374 | v-string. If the v-string has fewer than three components, it must |
| 2375 | have a leading 'v' character. Otherwise, the leading 'v' is optional. |
| 2376 | Both decimal and dotted-decimal versions may have a trailing "alpha" |
| 2377 | component separated by an underscore character after a fractional or |
| 2378 | dotted-decimal component. The parenthesized text indicates which |
| 2379 | criteria were not met. See the L<version> module for more details on |
| 2380 | allowed version formats. |
| 2381 | |
| 2382 | =item Invalid version object |
| 2383 | |
| 2384 | (F) The internal structure of the version object was invalid. Perhaps |
| 2385 | the internals were modified directly in some way or an arbitrary reference |
| 2386 | was blessed into the "version" class. |
| 2387 | |
| 2388 | =item ioctl is not implemented |
| 2389 | |
| 2390 | (F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement ioctl(), which is pretty |
| 2391 | strange for a machine that supports C. |
| 2392 | |
| 2393 | =item ioctl() on unopened %s |
| 2394 | |
| 2395 | (W unopened) You tried ioctl() on a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 2396 | Check your control flow and number of arguments. |
| 2397 | |
| 2398 | =item IO layers (like '%s') unavailable |
| 2399 | |
| 2400 | (F) Your Perl has not been configured to have PerlIO, and therefore |
| 2401 | you cannot use IO layers. To have PerlIO, Perl must be configured |
| 2402 | with 'useperlio'. |
| 2403 | |
| 2404 | =item IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture |
| 2405 | |
| 2406 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement the sockatmark() functionality, |
| 2407 | neither as a system call nor an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK). |
| 2408 | |
| 2409 | =item $* is no longer supported |
| 2410 | |
| 2411 | (D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older |
| 2412 | perls, has been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. In |
| 2413 | previous versions of perl the use of C<$*> enabled or disabled multi-line |
| 2414 | matching within a string. |
| 2415 | |
| 2416 | Instead of using C<$*> you should use the C</m> (and maybe C</s>) regexp |
| 2417 | modifiers. You can enable C</m> for a lexical scope (even a whole file) |
| 2418 | with C<use re '/m'>. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value |
| 2419 | then all regular expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.) |
| 2420 | |
| 2421 | =item $# is no longer supported |
| 2422 | |
| 2423 | (D deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$#>, deprecated in older |
| 2424 | perls, has been removed as of 5.9.3 and is no longer supported. You |
| 2425 | should use the printf/sprintf functions instead. |
| 2426 | |
| 2427 | =item '%s' is not a code reference |
| 2428 | |
| 2429 | (W overload) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant |
| 2430 | needs to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference |
| 2431 | to a subroutine. |
| 2432 | |
| 2433 | =item '%s' is not an overloadable type |
| 2434 | |
| 2435 | (W overload) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is |
| 2436 | unaware of. |
| 2437 | |
| 2438 | =item junk on end of regexp |
| 2439 | |
| 2440 | (P) The regular expression parser is confused. |
| 2441 | |
| 2442 | =item Label not found for "last %s" |
| 2443 | |
| 2444 | (F) You named a loop to break out of, but you're not currently in a loop |
| 2445 | of that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 2446 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 2447 | |
| 2448 | =item Label not found for "next %s" |
| 2449 | |
| 2450 | (F) You named a loop to continue, but you're not currently in a loop of |
| 2451 | that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 2452 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 2453 | |
| 2454 | =item Label not found for "redo %s" |
| 2455 | |
| 2456 | (F) You named a loop to restart, but you're not currently in a loop of |
| 2457 | that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 2458 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 2459 | |
| 2460 | =item leaving effective %s failed |
| 2461 | |
| 2462 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and |
| 2463 | effective uids or gids failed. |
| 2464 | |
| 2465 | =item length/code after end of string in unpack |
| 2466 | |
| 2467 | (F) While unpacking, the string buffer was already used up when an unpack |
| 2468 | length/code combination tried to obtain more data. This results in |
| 2469 | an undefined value for the length. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2470 | |
| 2471 | =item length() used on %s |
| 2472 | |
| 2473 | (W syntax) You used length() on either an array or a hash when you |
| 2474 | probably wanted a count of the items. |
| 2475 | |
| 2476 | Array size can be obtained by doing: |
| 2477 | |
| 2478 | scalar(@array); |
| 2479 | |
| 2480 | The number of items in a hash can be obtained by doing: |
| 2481 | |
| 2482 | scalar(keys %hash); |
| 2483 | |
| 2484 | =item Lexing code attempted to stuff non-Latin-1 character into Latin-1 input |
| 2485 | |
| 2486 | (F) An extension is attempting to insert text into the current parse |
| 2487 | (using L<lex_stuff_pvn|perlapi/lex_stuff_pvn> or similar), but tried to insert a character |
| 2488 | that couldn't be part of the current input. This is an inherent pitfall |
| 2489 | of the stuffing mechanism, and one of the reasons to avoid it. Where it |
| 2490 | is necessary to stuff, stuffing only plain ASCII is recommended. |
| 2491 | |
| 2492 | =item Lexing code internal error (%s) |
| 2493 | |
| 2494 | (F) Lexing code supplied by an extension violated the lexer's API in a |
| 2495 | detectable way. |
| 2496 | |
| 2497 | =item listen() on closed socket %s |
| 2498 | |
| 2499 | (W closed) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket. Did you forget |
| 2500 | to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 2501 | L<perlfunc/listen>. |
| 2502 | |
| 2503 | =item localtime(%f) too large |
| 2504 | |
| 2505 | (W overflow) You called C<localtime> with a number that was larger |
| 2506 | than it can reliably handle and C<localtime> probably returned the |
| 2507 | wrong date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special |
| 2508 | not-a-number value). |
| 2509 | |
| 2510 | =item localtime(%f) too small |
| 2511 | |
| 2512 | (W overflow) You called C<localtime> with a number that was smaller |
| 2513 | than it can reliably handle and C<localtime> probably returned the |
| 2514 | wrong date. This warning is also triggered with NaN (the special |
| 2515 | not-a-number value). |
| 2516 | |
| 2517 | =item Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex m/%s/ |
| 2518 | |
| 2519 | (F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can |
| 2520 | handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release. |
| 2521 | |
| 2522 | =item Lost precision when %s %f by 1 |
| 2523 | |
| 2524 | (W) The value you attempted to increment or decrement by one is too large |
| 2525 | for the underlying floating point representation to store accurately, |
| 2526 | hence the target of C<++> or C<--> is unchanged. Perl issues this warning |
| 2527 | because it has already switched from integers to floating point when values |
| 2528 | are too large for integers, and now even floating point is insufficient. |
| 2529 | You may wish to switch to using L<Math::BigInt> explicitly. |
| 2530 | |
| 2531 | =item lstat() on filehandle %s |
| 2532 | |
| 2533 | (W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean |
| 2534 | by that? lstat() makes sense only on filenames. (Perl did a fstat() |
| 2535 | instead on the filehandle.) |
| 2536 | |
| 2537 | =item lvalue attribute cannot be removed after the subroutine has been defined |
| 2538 | |
| 2539 | (W misc) The lvalue attribute on a Perl subroutine cannot be turned off |
| 2540 | once the subroutine is defined. |
| 2541 | |
| 2542 | =item lvalue attribute ignored after the subroutine has been defined |
| 2543 | |
| 2544 | (W misc) Making a Perl subroutine an lvalue subroutine after it has been |
| 2545 | defined, whether by declaring the subroutine with an lvalue attribute |
| 2546 | or by using L<attributes.pm|attributes>, is not possible. To make the subroutine an |
| 2547 | lvalue subroutine, add the lvalue attribute to the definition, or put |
| 2548 | the declaration before the definition. |
| 2549 | |
| 2550 | =item Malformed integer in [] in pack |
| 2551 | |
| 2552 | (F) Between the brackets enclosing a numeric repeat count only digits |
| 2553 | are permitted. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2554 | |
| 2555 | =item Malformed integer in [] in unpack |
| 2556 | |
| 2557 | (F) Between the brackets enclosing a numeric repeat count only digits |
| 2558 | are permitted. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2559 | |
| 2560 | =item Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX |
| 2561 | |
| 2562 | (F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERLLIB_PREFIX should be of the form |
| 2563 | |
| 2564 | prefix1;prefix2 |
| 2565 | |
| 2566 | or |
| 2567 | prefix1 prefix2 |
| 2568 | |
| 2569 | with nonempty prefix1 and prefix2. If C<prefix1> is indeed a prefix of |
| 2570 | a builtin library search path, prefix2 is substituted. The error may |
| 2571 | appear if components are not found, or are too long. See |
| 2572 | "PERLLIB_PREFIX" in L<perlos2>. |
| 2573 | |
| 2574 | =item Malformed prototype for %s: %s |
| 2575 | |
| 2576 | (F) You tried to use a function with a malformed prototype. The |
| 2577 | syntax of function prototypes is given a brief compile-time check for |
| 2578 | obvious errors like invalid characters. A more rigorous check is run |
| 2579 | when the function is called. |
| 2580 | |
| 2581 | =item Malformed UTF-8 character (%s) |
| 2582 | |
| 2583 | (S utf8) (F) Perl detected a string that didn't comply with UTF-8 |
| 2584 | encoding rules, even though it had the UTF8 flag on. |
| 2585 | |
| 2586 | One possible cause is that you set the UTF8 flag yourself for data that |
| 2587 | you thought to be in UTF-8 but it wasn't (it was for example legacy |
| 2588 | 8-bit data). To guard against this, you can use Encode::decode_utf8. |
| 2589 | |
| 2590 | If you use the C<:encoding(UTF-8)> PerlIO layer for input, invalid byte |
| 2591 | sequences are handled gracefully, but if you use C<:utf8>, the flag is |
| 2592 | set without validating the data, possibly resulting in this error |
| 2593 | message. |
| 2594 | |
| 2595 | See also L<Encode/"Handling Malformed Data">. |
| 2596 | |
| 2597 | =item Malformed UTF-8 returned by \N |
| 2598 | |
| 2599 | (F) The charnames handler returned malformed UTF-8. |
| 2600 | |
| 2601 | =item Malformed UTF-8 string in '%c' format in unpack |
| 2602 | |
| 2603 | (F) You tried to unpack something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding |
| 2604 | rules and perl was unable to guess how to make more progress. |
| 2605 | |
| 2606 | =item Malformed UTF-8 string in pack |
| 2607 | |
| 2608 | (F) You tried to pack something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding |
| 2609 | rules and perl was unable to guess how to make more progress. |
| 2610 | |
| 2611 | =item Malformed UTF-8 string in unpack |
| 2612 | |
| 2613 | (F) You tried to unpack something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding |
| 2614 | rules and perl was unable to guess how to make more progress. |
| 2615 | |
| 2616 | =item Malformed UTF-16 surrogate |
| 2617 | |
| 2618 | (F) Perl thought it was reading UTF-16 encoded character data but while |
| 2619 | doing it Perl met a malformed Unicode surrogate. |
| 2620 | |
| 2621 | =item %s matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2622 | |
| 2623 | (W regexp) The pattern you've specified would be an infinite loop if the |
| 2624 | regular expression engine didn't specifically check for that. The <-- HERE |
| 2625 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 2626 | See L<perlre>. |
| 2627 | |
| 2628 | =item Maximal count of pending signals (%u) exceeded |
| 2629 | |
| 2630 | (F) Perl aborted due to too high a number of signals pending. This |
| 2631 | usually indicates that your operating system tried to deliver signals |
| 2632 | too fast (with a very high priority), starving the perl process from |
| 2633 | resources it would need to reach a point where it can process signals |
| 2634 | safely. (See L<perlipc/"Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)">.) |
| 2635 | |
| 2636 | =item "%s" may clash with future reserved word |
| 2637 | |
| 2638 | (W) This warning may be due to running a perl5 script through a perl4 |
| 2639 | interpreter, especially if the word that is being warned about is |
| 2640 | "use" or "my". |
| 2641 | |
| 2642 | =item % may not be used in pack |
| 2643 | |
| 2644 | (F) You can't pack a string by supplying a checksum, because the |
| 2645 | checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other way. |
| 2646 | See L<perlfunc/unpack>. |
| 2647 | |
| 2648 | =item Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing |
| 2649 | |
| 2650 | (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that |
| 2651 | doesn't resolve to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. |
| 2652 | |
| 2653 | =item Method %s not permitted |
| 2654 | |
| 2655 | See Server error. |
| 2656 | |
| 2657 | =item Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting on line %d |
| 2658 | |
| 2659 | (S) An advisory indicating that the previous error may have been caused |
| 2660 | by a missing delimiter on a string or pattern, because it eventually |
| 2661 | ended earlier on the current line. |
| 2662 | |
| 2663 | =item Misplaced _ in number |
| 2664 | |
| 2665 | (W syntax) An underscore (underbar) in a numeric constant did not |
| 2666 | separate two digits. |
| 2667 | |
| 2668 | =item Missing argument in %s |
| 2669 | |
| 2670 | (W uninitialized) A printf-type format required more arguments than were |
| 2671 | supplied. |
| 2672 | |
| 2673 | =item Missing argument to -%c |
| 2674 | |
| 2675 | (F) The argument to the indicated command line switch must follow |
| 2676 | immediately after the switch, without intervening spaces. |
| 2677 | |
| 2678 | =item Missing braces on \N{} |
| 2679 | |
| 2680 | (F) Wrong syntax of character name literal C<\N{charname}> within |
| 2681 | double-quotish context. This can also happen when there is a space |
| 2682 | (or comment) between the C<\N> and the C<{> in a regex with the C</x> modifier. |
| 2683 | This modifier does not change the requirement that the brace immediately |
| 2684 | follow the C<\N>. |
| 2685 | |
| 2686 | =item Missing braces on \o{} |
| 2687 | |
| 2688 | (F) A C<\o> must be followed immediately by a C<{> in double-quotish context. |
| 2689 | |
| 2690 | =item Missing comma after first argument to %s function |
| 2691 | |
| 2692 | (F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an |
| 2693 | "indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them. |
| 2694 | |
| 2695 | =item Missing command in piped open |
| 2696 | |
| 2697 | (W pipe) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or |
| 2698 | C<open(FH, "command |")> construction, but the command was missing or |
| 2699 | blank. |
| 2700 | |
| 2701 | =item Missing control char name in \c |
| 2702 | |
| 2703 | (F) A double-quoted string ended with "\c", without the required control |
| 2704 | character name. |
| 2705 | |
| 2706 | =item Missing name in "my sub" |
| 2707 | |
| 2708 | (F) The reserved syntax for lexically scoped subroutines requires that |
| 2709 | they have a name with which they can be found. |
| 2710 | |
| 2711 | =item Missing $ on loop variable |
| 2712 | |
| 2713 | (F) Apparently you've been programming in B<csh> too much. Variables |
| 2714 | are always mentioned with the $ in Perl, unlike in the shells, where it |
| 2715 | can vary from one line to the next. |
| 2716 | |
| 2717 | =item (Missing operator before %s?) |
| 2718 | |
| 2719 | (S syntax) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 2720 | "%s found where operator expected". Often the missing operator is a comma. |
| 2721 | |
| 2722 | =item Missing right brace on %s |
| 2723 | |
| 2724 | (F) Missing right brace in C<\x{...}>, C<\p{...}>, C<\P{...}>, or C<\N{...}>. |
| 2725 | |
| 2726 | =item Missing right brace on \N{} or unescaped left brace after \N |
| 2727 | |
| 2728 | (F) C<\N> has two meanings. |
| 2729 | |
| 2730 | The traditional one has it followed by a name enclosed in braces, |
| 2731 | meaning the character (or sequence of characters) given by that |
| 2732 | name. Thus C<\N{ASTERISK}> is another way of writing C<*>, valid in both |
| 2733 | double-quoted strings and regular expression patterns. In patterns, |
| 2734 | it doesn't have the meaning an unescaped C<*> does. |
| 2735 | |
| 2736 | Starting in Perl 5.12.0, C<\N> also can have an additional meaning (only) |
| 2737 | in patterns, namely to match a non-newline character. (This is short |
| 2738 | for C<[^\n]>, and like C<.> but is not affected by the C</s> regex modifier.) |
| 2739 | |
| 2740 | This can lead to some ambiguities. When C<\N> is not followed immediately |
| 2741 | by a left brace, Perl assumes the C<[^\n]> meaning. Also, if the braces |
| 2742 | form a valid quantifier such as C<\N{3}> or C<\N{5,}>, Perl assumes that this |
| 2743 | means to match the given quantity of non-newlines (in these examples, |
| 2744 | 3; and 5 or more, respectively). In all other case, where there is a |
| 2745 | C<\N{> and a matching C<}>, Perl assumes that a character name is desired. |
| 2746 | |
| 2747 | However, if there is no matching C<}>, Perl doesn't know if it was |
| 2748 | mistakenly omitted, or if C<[^\n]{> was desired, and raises this error. |
| 2749 | If you meant the former, add the right brace; if you meant the latter, |
| 2750 | escape the brace with a backslash, like so: C<\N\{> |
| 2751 | |
| 2752 | =item Missing right curly or square bracket |
| 2753 | |
| 2754 | (F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than closing |
| 2755 | ones. As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place you |
| 2756 | were last editing. |
| 2757 | |
| 2758 | =item (Missing semicolon on previous line?) |
| 2759 | |
| 2760 | (S syntax) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 2761 | "%s found where operator expected". Don't automatically put a semicolon on |
| 2762 | the previous line just because you saw this message. |
| 2763 | |
| 2764 | =item Modification of a read-only value attempted |
| 2765 | |
| 2766 | (F) You tried, directly or indirectly, to change the value of a |
| 2767 | constant. You didn't, of course, try "2 = 1", because the compiler |
| 2768 | catches that. But an easy way to do the same thing is: |
| 2769 | |
| 2770 | sub mod { $_[0] = 1 } |
| 2771 | mod(2); |
| 2772 | |
| 2773 | Another way is to assign to a substr() that's off the end of the string. |
| 2774 | |
| 2775 | Yet another way is to assign to a C<foreach> loop I<VAR> when I<VAR> |
| 2776 | is aliased to a constant in the look I<LIST>: |
| 2777 | |
| 2778 | $x = 1; |
| 2779 | foreach my $n ($x, 2) { |
| 2780 | $n *= 2; # modifies the $x, but fails on attempt to modify the 2 |
| 2781 | } |
| 2782 | |
| 2783 | =item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, %s |
| 2784 | |
| 2785 | (F) You tried to make an array value spring into existence, and the |
| 2786 | subscript was probably negative, even counting from end of the array |
| 2787 | backwards. |
| 2788 | |
| 2789 | =item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s |
| 2790 | |
| 2791 | (P) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it |
| 2792 | couldn't be created for some peculiar reason. |
| 2793 | |
| 2794 | =item Module name must be constant |
| 2795 | |
| 2796 | (F) Only a bare module name is allowed as the first argument to a "use". |
| 2797 | |
| 2798 | =item Module name required with -%c option |
| 2799 | |
| 2800 | (F) The C<-M> or C<-m> options say that Perl should load some module, but |
| 2801 | you omitted the name of the module. Consult L<perlrun> for full details |
| 2802 | about C<-M> and C<-m>. |
| 2803 | |
| 2804 | =item More than one argument to '%s' open |
| 2805 | |
| 2806 | (F) The C<open> function has been asked to open multiple files. This |
| 2807 | can happen if you are trying to open a pipe to a command that takes a |
| 2808 | list of arguments, but have forgotten to specify a piped open mode. |
| 2809 | See L<perlfunc/open> for details. |
| 2810 | |
| 2811 | =item msg%s not implemented |
| 2812 | |
| 2813 | (F) You don't have System V message IPC on your system. |
| 2814 | |
| 2815 | =item Multidimensional syntax %s not supported |
| 2816 | |
| 2817 | (W syntax) Multidimensional arrays aren't written like C<$foo[1,2,3]>. |
| 2818 | They're written like C<$foo[1][2][3]>, as in C. |
| 2819 | |
| 2820 | =item '/' must follow a numeric type in unpack |
| 2821 | |
| 2822 | (F) You had an unpack template that contained a '/', but this did not |
| 2823 | follow some unpack specification producing a numeric value. |
| 2824 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2825 | |
| 2826 | =item "my sub" not yet implemented |
| 2827 | |
| 2828 | (F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try |
| 2829 | that yet. |
| 2830 | |
| 2831 | =item "my" variable %s can't be in a package |
| 2832 | |
| 2833 | (F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make |
| 2834 | sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use |
| 2835 | local() if you want to localize a package variable. |
| 2836 | |
| 2837 | =item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo |
| 2838 | |
| 2839 | (W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names. |
| 2840 | If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it |
| 2841 | again somehow to suppress the message. The C<our> declaration is |
| 2842 | provided for this purpose. |
| 2843 | |
| 2844 | NOTE: This warning detects symbols that have been used only once so $c, @c, |
| 2845 | %c, *c, &c, sub c{}, c(), and c (the filehandle or format) are considered |
| 2846 | the same; if a program uses $c only once but also uses any of the others it |
| 2847 | will not trigger this warning. |
| 2848 | |
| 2849 | =item \N in a character class must be a named character: \N{...} |
| 2850 | |
| 2851 | (F) The new (5.12) meaning of C<\N> as C<[^\n]> is not valid in a bracketed |
| 2852 | character class, for the same reason that C<.> in a character class loses |
| 2853 | its specialness: it matches almost everything, which is probably not |
| 2854 | what you want. |
| 2855 | |
| 2856 | =item \N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer |
| 2857 | |
| 2858 | (F) When compiling a regex pattern, an unresolved named character or |
| 2859 | sequence was encountered. This can happen in any of several ways that |
| 2860 | bypass the lexer, such as using single-quotish context, or an extra |
| 2861 | backslash in double-quotish: |
| 2862 | |
| 2863 | $re = '\N{SPACE}'; # Wrong! |
| 2864 | $re = "\\N{SPACE}"; # Wrong! |
| 2865 | /$re/; |
| 2866 | |
| 2867 | Instead, use double-quotes with a single backslash: |
| 2868 | |
| 2869 | $re = "\N{SPACE}"; # ok |
| 2870 | /$re/; |
| 2871 | |
| 2872 | The lexer can be bypassed as well by creating the pattern from smaller |
| 2873 | components: |
| 2874 | |
| 2875 | $re = '\N'; |
| 2876 | /${re}{SPACE}/; # Wrong! |
| 2877 | |
| 2878 | It's not a good idea to split a construct in the middle like this, and it |
| 2879 | doesn't work here. Instead use the solution above. |
| 2880 | |
| 2881 | Finally, the message also can happen under the C</x> regex modifier when the |
| 2882 | C<\N> is separated by spaces from the C<{>, in which case, remove the spaces. |
| 2883 | |
| 2884 | /\N {SPACE}/x; # Wrong! |
| 2885 | /\N{SPACE}/x; # ok |
| 2886 | |
| 2887 | =item Negative '/' count in unpack |
| 2888 | |
| 2889 | (F) The length count obtained from a length/code unpack operation was |
| 2890 | negative. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2891 | |
| 2892 | =item Negative length |
| 2893 | |
| 2894 | (F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with a buffer |
| 2895 | length that is less than 0. This is difficult to imagine. |
| 2896 | |
| 2897 | =item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context |
| 2898 | |
| 2899 | (F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be |
| 2900 | greater than or equal to zero. |
| 2901 | |
| 2902 | =item Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2903 | |
| 2904 | (F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So |
| 2905 | things like ** or +* or ?* are illegal. The <-- HERE shows in the regular |
| 2906 | expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 2907 | |
| 2908 | Note that the minimal matching quantifiers, C<*?>, C<+?>, and |
| 2909 | C<??> appear to be nested quantifiers, but aren't. See L<perlre>. |
| 2910 | |
| 2911 | =item %s never introduced |
| 2912 | |
| 2913 | (S internal) The symbol in question was declared but somehow went out of |
| 2914 | scope before it could possibly have been used. |
| 2915 | |
| 2916 | =item next::method/next::can/maybe::next::method cannot find enclosing method |
| 2917 | |
| 2918 | (F) C<next::method> needs to be called within the context of a |
| 2919 | real method in a real package, and it could not find such a context. |
| 2920 | See L<mro>. |
| 2921 | |
| 2922 | =item No %s allowed while running setuid |
| 2923 | |
| 2924 | (F) Certain operations are deemed to be too insecure for a setuid or |
| 2925 | setgid script to even be allowed to attempt. Generally speaking there |
| 2926 | will be another way to do what you want that is, if not secure, at least |
| 2927 | securable. See L<perlsec>. |
| 2928 | |
| 2929 | =item No comma allowed after %s |
| 2930 | |
| 2931 | (F) A list operator that has a filehandle or "indirect object" is not |
| 2932 | allowed to have a comma between that and the following arguments. |
| 2933 | Otherwise it'd be just another one of the arguments. |
| 2934 | |
| 2935 | One possible cause for this is that you expected to have imported a |
| 2936 | constant to your name space with B<use> or B<import> while no such |
| 2937 | importing took place, it may for example be that your operating system |
| 2938 | does not support that particular constant. Hopefully you did use an |
| 2939 | explicit import list for the constants you expect to see; please see |
| 2940 | L<perlfunc/use> and L<perlfunc/import>. While an explicit import list |
| 2941 | would probably have caught this error earlier it naturally does not |
| 2942 | remedy the fact that your operating system still does not support that |
| 2943 | constant. Maybe you have a typo in the constants of the symbol import |
| 2944 | list of B<use> or B<import> or in the constant name at the line where |
| 2945 | this error was triggered? |
| 2946 | |
| 2947 | =item No command into which to pipe on command line |
| 2948 | |
| 2949 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2950 | redirection, and found a '|' at the end of the command line, so it |
| 2951 | doesn't know where you want to pipe the output from this command. |
| 2952 | |
| 2953 | =item No DB::DB routine defined |
| 2954 | |
| 2955 | (F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, but |
| 2956 | for some reason the current debugger (e.g. F<perl5db.pl> or a C<Devel::> |
| 2957 | module) didn't define a routine to be called at the beginning of each |
| 2958 | statement. |
| 2959 | |
| 2960 | =item No dbm on this machine |
| 2961 | |
| 2962 | (P) This is counted as an internal error, because every machine should |
| 2963 | supply dbm nowadays, because Perl comes with SDBM. See L<SDBM_File>. |
| 2964 | |
| 2965 | =item No DB::sub routine defined |
| 2966 | |
| 2967 | (F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, but |
| 2968 | for some reason the current debugger (e.g. F<perl5db.pl> or a C<Devel::> |
| 2969 | module) didn't define a C<DB::sub> routine to be called at the beginning |
| 2970 | of each ordinary subroutine call. |
| 2971 | |
| 2972 | =item No error file after 2> or 2>> on command line |
| 2973 | |
| 2974 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2975 | redirection, and found a '2>' or a '2>>' on the command line, but can't |
| 2976 | find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stderr. |
| 2977 | |
| 2978 | =item No group ending character '%c' found in template |
| 2979 | |
| 2980 | (F) A pack or unpack template has an opening '(' or '[' without its |
| 2981 | matching counterpart. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2982 | |
| 2983 | =item No input file after < on command line |
| 2984 | |
| 2985 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2986 | redirection, and found a '<' on the command line, but can't find the |
| 2987 | name of the file from which to read data for stdin. |
| 2988 | |
| 2989 | =item No next::method '%s' found for %s |
| 2990 | |
| 2991 | (F) C<next::method> found no further instances of this method name |
| 2992 | in the remaining packages of the MRO of this class. If you don't want |
| 2993 | it throwing an exception, use C<maybe::next::method> |
| 2994 | or C<next::can>. See L<mro>. |
| 2995 | |
| 2996 | =item "no" not allowed in expression |
| 2997 | |
| 2998 | (F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and |
| 2999 | returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>. |
| 3000 | |
| 3001 | =item No output file after > on command line |
| 3002 | |
| 3003 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 3004 | redirection, and found a lone '>' at the end of the command line, so it |
| 3005 | doesn't know where you wanted to redirect stdout. |
| 3006 | |
| 3007 | =item No output file after > or >> on command line |
| 3008 | |
| 3009 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 3010 | redirection, and found a '>' or a '>>' on the command line, but can't |
| 3011 | find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stdout. |
| 3012 | |
| 3013 | =item No package name allowed for variable %s in "our" |
| 3014 | |
| 3015 | (F) Fully qualified variable names are not allowed in "our" |
| 3016 | declarations, because that doesn't make much sense under existing |
| 3017 | semantics. Such syntax is reserved for future extensions. |
| 3018 | |
| 3019 | =item No Perl script found in input |
| 3020 | |
| 3021 | (F) You called C<perl -x>, but no line was found in the file beginning |
| 3022 | with #! and containing the word "perl". |
| 3023 | |
| 3024 | =item No setregid available |
| 3025 | |
| 3026 | (F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setregid() call for |
| 3027 | your system. |
| 3028 | |
| 3029 | =item No setreuid available |
| 3030 | |
| 3031 | (F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setreuid() call for |
| 3032 | your system. |
| 3033 | |
| 3034 | =item No %s specified for -%c |
| 3035 | |
| 3036 | (F) The indicated command line switch needs a mandatory argument, but |
| 3037 | you haven't specified one. |
| 3038 | |
| 3039 | =item No such class field "%s" in variable %s of type %s |
| 3040 | |
| 3041 | (F) You tried to access a key from a hash through the indicated typed variable |
| 3042 | but that key is not allowed by the package of the same type. The indicated |
| 3043 | package has restricted the set of allowed keys using the L<fields> pragma. |
| 3044 | |
| 3045 | =item No such class %s |
| 3046 | |
| 3047 | (F) You provided a class qualifier in a "my", "our" or "state" |
| 3048 | declaration, but this class doesn't exist at this point in your program. |
| 3049 | |
| 3050 | =item No such hook: %s |
| 3051 | |
| 3052 | (F) You specified a signal hook that was not recognized by Perl. |
| 3053 | Currently, Perl accepts C<__DIE__> and C<__WARN__> as valid signal hooks. |
| 3054 | |
| 3055 | =item No such pipe open |
| 3056 | |
| 3057 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The internal routine my_pclose() tried to |
| 3058 | close a pipe which hadn't been opened. This should have been caught |
| 3059 | earlier as an attempt to close an unopened filehandle. |
| 3060 | |
| 3061 | =item No such signal: SIG%s |
| 3062 | |
| 3063 | (W signal) You specified a signal name as a subscript to %SIG that was |
| 3064 | not recognized. Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal |
| 3065 | names on your system. |
| 3066 | |
| 3067 | =item Not a CODE reference |
| 3068 | |
| 3069 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a |
| 3070 | subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead. You can |
| 3071 | use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See |
| 3072 | also L<perlref>. |
| 3073 | |
| 3074 | =item Not a format reference |
| 3075 | |
| 3076 | (F) I'm not sure how you managed to generate a reference to an anonymous |
| 3077 | format, but this indicates you did, and that it didn't exist. |
| 3078 | |
| 3079 | =item Not a GLOB reference |
| 3080 | |
| 3081 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a "typeglob" (that is, a |
| 3082 | symbol table entry that looks like C<*foo>), but found a reference to |
| 3083 | something else instead. You can use the ref() function to find out what |
| 3084 | kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 3085 | |
| 3086 | =item Not a HASH reference |
| 3087 | |
| 3088 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a hash value, but found a |
| 3089 | reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function to |
| 3090 | find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 3091 | |
| 3092 | =item Not an ARRAY reference |
| 3093 | |
| 3094 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to an array value, but found |
| 3095 | a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function |
| 3096 | to find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 3097 | |
| 3098 | =item Not an unblessed ARRAY reference |
| 3099 | |
| 3100 | (F) You passed a reference to a blessed array to C<push>, C<shift> or |
| 3101 | another array function. These only accept unblessed array references |
| 3102 | or arrays beginning explicitly with C<@>. |
| 3103 | |
| 3104 | =item Not a SCALAR reference |
| 3105 | |
| 3106 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a scalar value, but found |
| 3107 | a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function |
| 3108 | to find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 3109 | |
| 3110 | =item Not a subroutine reference |
| 3111 | |
| 3112 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a |
| 3113 | subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead. You can |
| 3114 | use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See |
| 3115 | also L<perlref>. |
| 3116 | |
| 3117 | =item Not a subroutine reference in overload table |
| 3118 | |
| 3119 | (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that |
| 3120 | doesn't somehow point to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. |
| 3121 | |
| 3122 | =item Not enough arguments for %s |
| 3123 | |
| 3124 | (F) The function requires more arguments than you specified. |
| 3125 | |
| 3126 | =item Not enough format arguments |
| 3127 | |
| 3128 | (W syntax) A format specified more picture fields than the next line |
| 3129 | supplied. See L<perlform>. |
| 3130 | |
| 3131 | =item %s: not found |
| 3132 | |
| 3133 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead |
| 3134 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl |
| 3135 | yourself. |
| 3136 | |
| 3137 | =item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC |
| 3138 | |
| 3139 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl was unable to find the local |
| 3140 | timezone offset, so it's assuming that local system time is equivalent |
| 3141 | to UTC. If it's not, define the logical name |
| 3142 | F<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL> to translate to the number of seconds which |
| 3143 | need to be added to UTC to get local time. |
| 3144 | |
| 3145 | =item Non-octal character '%c'. Resolved as "%s" |
| 3146 | |
| 3147 | (W digit) In parsing an octal numeric constant, a character was |
| 3148 | unexpectedly encountered that isn't octal. The resulting value is as |
| 3149 | indicated. |
| 3150 | |
| 3151 | =item Non-string passed as bitmask |
| 3152 | |
| 3153 | (W misc) A number has been passed as a bitmask argument to select(). |
| 3154 | Use the vec() function to construct the file descriptor bitmasks for |
| 3155 | select. See L<perlfunc/select>. |
| 3156 | |
| 3157 | =item Null filename used |
| 3158 | |
| 3159 | (F) You can't require the null filename, especially because on many |
| 3160 | machines that means the current directory! See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 3161 | |
| 3162 | =item NULL OP IN RUN |
| 3163 | |
| 3164 | (S debugging) Some internal routine called run() with a null opcode |
| 3165 | pointer. |
| 3166 | |
| 3167 | =item Null picture in formline |
| 3168 | |
| 3169 | (F) The first argument to formline must be a valid format picture |
| 3170 | specification. It was found to be empty, which probably means you |
| 3171 | supplied it an uninitialized value. See L<perlform>. |
| 3172 | |
| 3173 | =item Null realloc |
| 3174 | |
| 3175 | (P) An attempt was made to realloc NULL. |
| 3176 | |
| 3177 | =item NULL regexp argument |
| 3178 | |
| 3179 | (P) The internal pattern matching routines blew it big time. |
| 3180 | |
| 3181 | =item NULL regexp parameter |
| 3182 | |
| 3183 | (P) The internal pattern matching routines are out of their gourd. |
| 3184 | |
| 3185 | =item Number too long |
| 3186 | |
| 3187 | (F) Perl limits the representation of decimal numbers in programs to |
| 3188 | about 250 characters. You've exceeded that length. Future |
| 3189 | versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation. In |
| 3190 | the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of |
| 3191 | "1_000_000"). |
| 3192 | |
| 3193 | =item Number with no digits |
| 3194 | |
| 3195 | (F) Perl was looking for a number but found nothing that looked like |
| 3196 | a number. This happens, for example with C<\o{}>, with no number between |
| 3197 | the braces. |
| 3198 | |
| 3199 | =item Octal number in vector unsupported |
| 3200 | |
| 3201 | (F) Numbers with a leading C<0> are not currently allowed in vectors. |
| 3202 | The octal number interpretation of such numbers may be supported in a |
| 3203 | future version. |
| 3204 | |
| 3205 | =item Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable |
| 3206 | |
| 3207 | (W portable) The octal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 3208 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 3209 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 3210 | |
| 3211 | =item Odd number of arguments for overload::constant |
| 3212 | |
| 3213 | (W overload) The call to overload::constant contained an odd number of |
| 3214 | arguments. The arguments should come in pairs. |
| 3215 | |
| 3216 | =item Odd number of elements in anonymous hash |
| 3217 | |
| 3218 | (W misc) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, |
| 3219 | which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs. |
| 3220 | |
| 3221 | =item Odd number of elements in hash assignment |
| 3222 | |
| 3223 | (W misc) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, |
| 3224 | which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs. |
| 3225 | |
| 3226 | =item Offset outside string |
| 3227 | |
| 3228 | (F)(W layer) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv/seek operation |
| 3229 | with an offset pointing outside the buffer. This is difficult to |
| 3230 | imagine. The sole exceptions to this are that zero padding will |
| 3231 | take place when going past the end of the string when either |
| 3232 | C<sysread()>ing a file, or when seeking past the end of a scalar opened |
| 3233 | for I/O (in anticipation of future reads and to imitate the behaviour |
| 3234 | with real files). |
| 3235 | |
| 3236 | =item %s() on unopened %s |
| 3237 | |
| 3238 | (W unopened) An I/O operation was attempted on a filehandle that was |
| 3239 | never initialized. You need to do an open(), a sysopen(), or a socket() |
| 3240 | call, or call a constructor from the FileHandle package. |
| 3241 | |
| 3242 | =item -%s on unopened filehandle %s |
| 3243 | |
| 3244 | (W unopened) You tried to invoke a file test operator on a filehandle |
| 3245 | that isn't open. Check your control flow. See also L<perlfunc/-X>. |
| 3246 | |
| 3247 | =item oops: oopsAV |
| 3248 | |
| 3249 | (S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. |
| 3250 | |
| 3251 | =item oops: oopsHV |
| 3252 | |
| 3253 | (S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. |
| 3254 | |
| 3255 | =item Opening dirhandle %s also as a file |
| 3256 | |
| 3257 | (W io, deprecated) You used open() to associate a filehandle to |
| 3258 | a symbol (glob or scalar) that already holds a dirhandle. |
| 3259 | Although legal, this idiom might render your code confusing |
| 3260 | and is deprecated. |
| 3261 | |
| 3262 | =item Opening filehandle %s also as a directory |
| 3263 | |
| 3264 | (W io, deprecated) You used opendir() to associate a dirhandle to |
| 3265 | a symbol (glob or scalar) that already holds a filehandle. |
| 3266 | Although legal, this idiom might render your code confusing |
| 3267 | and is deprecated. |
| 3268 | |
| 3269 | =item Operation "%s": no method found, %s |
| 3270 | |
| 3271 | (F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no |
| 3272 | handler was defined. While some handlers can be autogenerated in terms |
| 3273 | of other handlers, there is no default handler for any operation, unless |
| 3274 | the C<fallback> overloading key is specified to be true. See L<overload>. |
| 3275 | |
| 3276 | =item Operation "%s" returns its argument for non-Unicode code point 0x%X |
| 3277 | |
| 3278 | (W utf8, non_unicode) You performed an operation requiring Unicode |
| 3279 | semantics on a code |
| 3280 | point that is not in Unicode, so what it should do is not defined. Perl |
| 3281 | has chosen to have it do nothing, and warn you. |
| 3282 | |
| 3283 | If the operation shown is "ToFold", it means that case-insensitive |
| 3284 | matching in a regular expression was done on the code point. |
| 3285 | |
| 3286 | If you know what you are doing you can turn off this warning by |
| 3287 | C<no warnings 'non_unicode';>. |
| 3288 | |
| 3289 | =item Operation "%s" returns its argument for UTF-16 surrogate U+%X |
| 3290 | |
| 3291 | (W utf8, surrogate) You performed an operation requiring Unicode |
| 3292 | semantics on a Unicode |
| 3293 | surrogate. Unicode frowns upon the use of surrogates for anything but |
| 3294 | storing strings in UTF-16, but semantics are (reluctantly) defined for |
| 3295 | the surrogates, and they are to do nothing for this operation. Because |
| 3296 | the use of surrogates can be dangerous, Perl warns. |
| 3297 | |
| 3298 | If the operation shown is "ToFold", it means that case-insensitive |
| 3299 | matching in a regular expression was done on the code point. |
| 3300 | |
| 3301 | If you know what you are doing you can turn off this warning by |
| 3302 | C<no warnings 'surrogate';>. |
| 3303 | |
| 3304 | =item Operator or semicolon missing before %s |
| 3305 | |
| 3306 | (S ambiguous) You used a variable or subroutine call where the parser |
| 3307 | was expecting an operator. The parser has assumed you really meant to |
| 3308 | use an operator, but this is highly likely to be incorrect. For |
| 3309 | example, if you say "*foo *foo" it will be interpreted as if you said |
| 3310 | "*foo * 'foo'". |
| 3311 | |
| 3312 | =item "our" variable %s redeclared |
| 3313 | |
| 3314 | (W misc) You seem to have already declared the same global once before |
| 3315 | in the current lexical scope. |
| 3316 | |
| 3317 | =item Out of memory! |
| 3318 | |
| 3319 | (X) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient |
| 3320 | remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. Perl has |
| 3321 | no option but to exit immediately. |
| 3322 | |
| 3323 | At least in Unix you may be able to get past this by increasing your |
| 3324 | process datasize limits: in csh/tcsh use C<limit> and |
| 3325 | C<limit datasize n> (where C<n> is the number of kilobytes) to check |
| 3326 | the current limits and change them, and in ksh/bash/zsh use C<ulimit -a> |
| 3327 | and C<ulimit -d n>, respectively. |
| 3328 | |
| 3329 | =item Out of memory during %s extend |
| 3330 | |
| 3331 | (X) An attempt was made to extend an array, a list, or a string beyond |
| 3332 | the largest possible memory allocation. |
| 3333 | |
| 3334 | =item Out of memory during "large" request for %s |
| 3335 | |
| 3336 | (F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient |
| 3337 | remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However, |
| 3338 | the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is 64K), so a |
| 3339 | possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted. |
| 3340 | |
| 3341 | =item Out of memory during request for %s |
| 3342 | |
| 3343 | (X)(F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was |
| 3344 | insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the |
| 3345 | request. |
| 3346 | |
| 3347 | The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it |
| 3348 | depends on the way perl was compiled. By default it is not trappable. |
| 3349 | However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^M> as an |
| 3350 | emergency pool after die()ing with this message. In this case the error |
| 3351 | is trappable I<once>, and the error message will include the line and file |
| 3352 | where the failed request happened. |
| 3353 | |
| 3354 | =item Out of memory during ridiculously large request |
| 3355 | |
| 3356 | (F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. This error |
| 3357 | is most likely to be caused by a typo in the Perl program. e.g., |
| 3358 | C<$arr[time]> instead of C<$arr[$time]>. |
| 3359 | |
| 3360 | =item Out of memory for yacc stack |
| 3361 | |
| 3362 | (F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue |
| 3363 | parsing, but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or |
| 3364 | otherwise. |
| 3365 | |
| 3366 | =item '.' outside of string in pack |
| 3367 | |
| 3368 | (F) The argument to a '.' in your template tried to move the working |
| 3369 | position to before the start of the packed string being built. |
| 3370 | |
| 3371 | =item '@' outside of string in unpack |
| 3372 | |
| 3373 | (F) You had a template that specified an absolute position outside |
| 3374 | the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 3375 | |
| 3376 | =item '@' outside of string with malformed UTF-8 in unpack |
| 3377 | |
| 3378 | (F) You had a template that specified an absolute position outside |
| 3379 | the string being unpacked. The string being unpacked was also invalid |
| 3380 | UTF-8. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 3381 | |
| 3382 | =item Overloaded dereference did not return a reference |
| 3383 | |
| 3384 | (F) An object with an overloaded dereference operator was dereferenced, |
| 3385 | but the overloaded operation did not return a reference. See |
| 3386 | L<overload>. |
| 3387 | |
| 3388 | =item Overloaded qr did not return a REGEXP |
| 3389 | |
| 3390 | (F) An object with a C<qr> overload was used as part of a match, but the |
| 3391 | overloaded operation didn't return a compiled regexp. See L<overload>. |
| 3392 | |
| 3393 | =item %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s |
| 3394 | |
| 3395 | (W reserved) A lowercase attribute name was used that had a |
| 3396 | package-specific handler. That name might have a meaning to Perl itself |
| 3397 | some day, even though it doesn't yet. Perhaps you should use a |
| 3398 | mixed-case attribute name, instead. See L<attributes>. |
| 3399 | |
| 3400 | =item pack/unpack repeat count overflow |
| 3401 | |
| 3402 | (F) You can't specify a repeat count so large that it overflows your |
| 3403 | signed integers. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 3404 | |
| 3405 | =item page overflow |
| 3406 | |
| 3407 | (W io) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a |
| 3408 | page. See L<perlform>. |
| 3409 | |
| 3410 | =item panic: %s |
| 3411 | |
| 3412 | (P) An internal error. |
| 3413 | |
| 3414 | =item panic: attempt to call %s in %s |
| 3415 | |
| 3416 | (P) One of the file test operators entered a code branch that calls |
| 3417 | an ACL related-function, but that function is not available on this |
| 3418 | platform. Earlier checks mean that it should not be possible to |
| 3419 | enter this branch on this platform. |
| 3420 | |
| 3421 | =item panic: ck_grep |
| 3422 | |
| 3423 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a grep. |
| 3424 | |
| 3425 | =item panic: ck_split |
| 3426 | |
| 3427 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a split. |
| 3428 | |
| 3429 | =item panic: corrupt saved stack index |
| 3430 | |
| 3431 | (P) The savestack was requested to restore more localized values than |
| 3432 | there are in the savestack. |
| 3433 | |
| 3434 | =item panic: del_backref |
| 3435 | |
| 3436 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset a weak |
| 3437 | reference. |
| 3438 | |
| 3439 | =item panic: die %s |
| 3440 | |
| 3441 | (P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered |
| 3442 | it wasn't an eval context. |
| 3443 | |
| 3444 | =item panic: do_subst |
| 3445 | |
| 3446 | (P) The internal pp_subst() routine was called with invalid operational |
| 3447 | data. |
| 3448 | |
| 3449 | =item panic: do_trans_%s |
| 3450 | |
| 3451 | (P) The internal do_trans routines were called with invalid operational |
| 3452 | data. |
| 3453 | |
| 3454 | =item panic: fold_constants JMPENV_PUSH returned %d |
| 3455 | |
| 3456 | (P) While attempting folding constants an exception other than an C<eval> |
| 3457 | failure was caught. |
| 3458 | |
| 3459 | =item panic: frexp |
| 3460 | |
| 3461 | (P) The library function frexp() failed, making printf("%f") impossible. |
| 3462 | |
| 3463 | =item panic: goto |
| 3464 | |
| 3465 | (P) We popped the context stack to a context with the specified label, |
| 3466 | and then discovered it wasn't a context we know how to do a goto in. |
| 3467 | |
| 3468 | =item panic: gp_free failed to free glob pointer |
| 3469 | |
| 3470 | (P) The internal routine used to clear a typeglob's entries tried |
| 3471 | repeatedly, but each time something re-created entries in the glob. Most |
| 3472 | likely the glob contains an object with a reference back to the glob and a |
| 3473 | destructor that adds a new object to the glob. |
| 3474 | |
| 3475 | =item panic: INTERPCASEMOD |
| 3476 | |
| 3477 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state at a case modifier. |
| 3478 | |
| 3479 | =item panic: INTERPCONCAT |
| 3480 | |
| 3481 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state parsing a string with brackets. |
| 3482 | |
| 3483 | =item panic: kid popen errno read |
| 3484 | |
| 3485 | (F) forked child returned an incomprehensible message about its errno. |
| 3486 | |
| 3487 | =item panic: last |
| 3488 | |
| 3489 | (P) We popped the context stack to a block context, and then discovered |
| 3490 | it wasn't a block context. |
| 3491 | |
| 3492 | =item panic: leave_scope clearsv |
| 3493 | |
| 3494 | (P) A writable lexical variable became read-only somehow within the |
| 3495 | scope. |
| 3496 | |
| 3497 | =item panic: leave_scope inconsistency |
| 3498 | |
| 3499 | (P) The savestack probably got out of sync. At least, there was an |
| 3500 | invalid enum on the top of it. |
| 3501 | |
| 3502 | =item panic: magic_killbackrefs |
| 3503 | |
| 3504 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset all weak |
| 3505 | references to an object. |
| 3506 | |
| 3507 | =item panic: malloc |
| 3508 | |
| 3509 | (P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of malloc. |
| 3510 | |
| 3511 | =item panic: memory wrap |
| 3512 | |
| 3513 | (P) Something tried to allocate more memory than possible. |
| 3514 | |
| 3515 | =item panic: pad_alloc |
| 3516 | |
| 3517 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 3518 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 3519 | |
| 3520 | =item panic: pad_free curpad |
| 3521 | |
| 3522 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 3523 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 3524 | |
| 3525 | =item panic: pad_free po |
| 3526 | |
| 3527 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 3528 | |
| 3529 | =item panic: pad_reset curpad |
| 3530 | |
| 3531 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 3532 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 3533 | |
| 3534 | =item panic: pad_sv po |
| 3535 | |
| 3536 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 3537 | |
| 3538 | =item panic: pad_swipe curpad |
| 3539 | |
| 3540 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 3541 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 3542 | |
| 3543 | =item panic: pad_swipe po |
| 3544 | |
| 3545 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 3546 | |
| 3547 | =item panic: pp_iter |
| 3548 | |
| 3549 | (P) The foreach iterator got called in a non-loop context frame. |
| 3550 | |
| 3551 | =item panic: pp_match%s |
| 3552 | |
| 3553 | (P) The internal pp_match() routine was called with invalid operational |
| 3554 | data. |
| 3555 | |
| 3556 | =item panic: pp_split |
| 3557 | |
| 3558 | (P) Something terrible went wrong in setting up for the split. |
| 3559 | |
| 3560 | =item panic: realloc |
| 3561 | |
| 3562 | (P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of realloc. |
| 3563 | |
| 3564 | =item panic: reference miscount on nsv in sv_replace() (%d != 1) |
| 3565 | |
| 3566 | (P) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with a |
| 3567 | reference count other than 1. |
| 3568 | |
| 3569 | =item panic: restartop |
| 3570 | |
| 3571 | (P) Some internal routine requested a goto (or something like it), and |
| 3572 | didn't supply the destination. |
| 3573 | |
| 3574 | =item panic: return |
| 3575 | |
| 3576 | (P) We popped the context stack to a subroutine or eval context, and |
| 3577 | then discovered it wasn't a subroutine or eval context. |
| 3578 | |
| 3579 | =item panic: scan_num |
| 3580 | |
| 3581 | (P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number. |
| 3582 | |
| 3583 | =item panic: sv_chop %s |
| 3584 | |
| 3585 | (P) The sv_chop() routine was passed a position that is not within the |
| 3586 | scalar's string buffer. |
| 3587 | |
| 3588 | =item panic: sv_insert |
| 3589 | |
| 3590 | (P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there |
| 3591 | was string. |
| 3592 | |
| 3593 | =item panic: strxfrm() gets absurd - a => %u, ab => %u |
| 3594 | |
| 3595 | (P) The interpreter's sanity check of the C function strxfrm() failed. |
| 3596 | In your current locale the returned transformation of the string "ab" is |
| 3597 | shorter than that of the string "a", which makes no sense. |
| 3598 | |
| 3599 | =item panic: top_env |
| 3600 | |
| 3601 | (P) The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something weird like that. |
| 3602 | |
| 3603 | =item panic: unimplemented op %s (#%d) called |
| 3604 | |
| 3605 | (P) The compiler is screwed up and attempted to use an op that isn't |
| 3606 | permitted at run time. |
| 3607 | |
| 3608 | =item panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen |
| 3609 | |
| 3610 | (P) Something tried to call utf16_to_utf8 with an odd (as opposed |
| 3611 | to even) byte length. |
| 3612 | |
| 3613 | =item panic: utf16_to_utf8_reversed: odd bytelen |
| 3614 | |
| 3615 | (P) Something tried to call utf16_to_utf8_reversed with an odd (as opposed |
| 3616 | to even) byte length. |
| 3617 | |
| 3618 | =item panic: yylex |
| 3619 | |
| 3620 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier. |
| 3621 | |
| 3622 | =item Parsing code internal error (%s) |
| 3623 | |
| 3624 | (F) Parsing code supplied by an extension violated the parser's API in |
| 3625 | a detectable way. |
| 3626 | |
| 3627 | =item Pattern subroutine nesting without pos change exceeded limit in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3628 | |
| 3629 | (F) You used a pattern that uses too many nested subpattern calls without |
| 3630 | consuming any text. Restructure the pattern so text is consumed before the |
| 3631 | nesting limit is exceeded. |
| 3632 | |
| 3633 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 3634 | discovered. |
| 3635 | |
| 3636 | =item Parentheses missing around "%s" list |
| 3637 | |
| 3638 | (W parenthesis) You said something like |
| 3639 | |
| 3640 | my $foo, $bar = @_; |
| 3641 | |
| 3642 | when you meant |
| 3643 | |
| 3644 | my ($foo, $bar) = @_; |
| 3645 | |
| 3646 | Remember that "my", "our", "local" and "state" bind tighter than comma. |
| 3647 | |
| 3648 | =item C<-p> destination: %s |
| 3649 | |
| 3650 | (F) An error occurred during the implicit output invoked by the C<-p> |
| 3651 | command-line switch. (This output goes to STDOUT unless you've |
| 3652 | redirected it with select().) |
| 3653 | |
| 3654 | =item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?) |
| 3655 | |
| 3656 | (F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 3657 | "Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"". It often means |
| 3658 | that a method requires a package that has not been loaded. |
| 3659 | |
| 3660 | =item Perl folding rules are not up-to-date for 0x%x; please use the perlbug utility to report |
| 3661 | |
| 3662 | (W regex, deprecated) You used a regular expression with |
| 3663 | case-insensitive matching, and there is a bug in Perl in which the |
| 3664 | built-in regular expression folding rules are not accurate. This may |
| 3665 | lead to incorrect results. Please report this as a bug using the |
| 3666 | "perlbug" utility. (This message is marked deprecated, so that it by |
| 3667 | default will be turned-on.) |
| 3668 | |
| 3669 | =item Perl_my_%s() not available |
| 3670 | |
| 3671 | (F) Your platform has very uncommon byte-order and integer size, |
| 3672 | so it was not possible to set up some or all fixed-width byte-order |
| 3673 | conversion functions. This is only a problem when you're using the |
| 3674 | '<' or '>' modifiers in (un)pack templates. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 3675 | |
| 3676 | =item Perl %s required--this is only version %s, stopped |
| 3677 | |
| 3678 | (F) The module in question uses features of a version of Perl more |
| 3679 | recent than the currently running version. How long has it been since |
| 3680 | you upgraded, anyway? See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 3681 | |
| 3682 | =item PERL_SH_DIR too long |
| 3683 | |
| 3684 | (F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERL_SH_DIR is the directory to find the |
| 3685 | C<sh>-shell in. See "PERL_SH_DIR" in L<perlos2>. |
| 3686 | |
| 3687 | =item PERL_SIGNALS illegal: "%s" |
| 3688 | |
| 3689 | See L<perlrun/PERL_SIGNALS> for legal values. |
| 3690 | |
| 3691 | =item perl: warning: Setting locale failed. |
| 3692 | |
| 3693 | (S) The whole warning message will look something like: |
| 3694 | |
| 3695 | perl: warning: Setting locale failed. |
| 3696 | perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: |
| 3697 | LC_ALL = "En_US", |
| 3698 | LANG = (unset) |
| 3699 | are supported and installed on your system. |
| 3700 | perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). |
| 3701 | |
| 3702 | Exactly what were the failed locale settings varies. In the above the |
| 3703 | settings were that the LC_ALL was "En_US" and the LANG had no value. |
| 3704 | This error means that Perl detected that you and/or your operating |
| 3705 | system supplier and/or system administrator have set up the so-called |
| 3706 | locale system but Perl could not use those settings. This was not |
| 3707 | dead serious, fortunately: there is a "default locale" called "C" that |
| 3708 | Perl can and will use, and the script will be run. Before you really |
| 3709 | fix the problem, however, you will get the same error message each |
| 3710 | time you run Perl. How to really fix the problem can be found in |
| 3711 | L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>. |
| 3712 | |
| 3713 | =item pid %x not a child |
| 3714 | |
| 3715 | (W exec) A warning peculiar to VMS. Waitpid() was asked to wait for a |
| 3716 | process which isn't a subprocess of the current process. While this is |
| 3717 | fine from VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended. |
| 3718 | |
| 3719 | =item 'P' must have an explicit size in unpack |
| 3720 | |
| 3721 | (F) The unpack format P must have an explicit size, not "*". |
| 3722 | |
| 3723 | =item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3724 | |
| 3725 | (F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown. The <-- HERE |
| 3726 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 3727 | Note that the POSIX character classes do B<not> have the C<is> prefix |
| 3728 | the corresponding C interfaces have: in other words, it's C<[[:print:]]>, |
| 3729 | not C<isprint>. See L<perlre>. |
| 3730 | |
| 3731 | =item POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument |
| 3732 | |
| 3733 | (F) Your system has POSIX getpgrp(), which takes no argument, unlike |
| 3734 | the BSD version, which takes a pid. |
| 3735 | |
| 3736 | =item POSIX syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3737 | |
| 3738 | (W regexp) The character class constructs [: :], [= =], and [. .] go |
| 3739 | I<inside> character classes, the [] are part of the construct, for example: |
| 3740 | /[012[:alpha:]345]/. Note that [= =] and [. .] are not currently |
| 3741 | implemented; they are simply placeholders for future extensions and will |
| 3742 | cause fatal errors. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3743 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3744 | |
| 3745 | =item POSIX syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3746 | |
| 3747 | (F regexp) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax |
| 3748 | beginning with "[." and ending with ".]" is reserved for future extensions. |
| 3749 | If you need to represent those character sequences inside a regular |
| 3750 | expression character class, just quote the square brackets with the |
| 3751 | backslash: "\[." and ".\]". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression |
| 3752 | about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3753 | |
| 3754 | =item POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3755 | |
| 3756 | (F) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax beginning |
| 3757 | with "[=" and ending with "=]" is reserved for future extensions. If you |
| 3758 | need to represent those character sequences inside a regular expression |
| 3759 | character class, just quote the square brackets with the backslash: "\[=" |
| 3760 | and "=\]". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 3761 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3762 | |
| 3763 | =item Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list |
| 3764 | |
| 3765 | (W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal |
| 3766 | strings, comment characters are not ignored, but are instead treated as |
| 3767 | literal data. (You may have used different delimiters than the |
| 3768 | parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently used.) |
| 3769 | |
| 3770 | You probably wrote something like this: |
| 3771 | |
| 3772 | @list = qw( |
| 3773 | a # a comment |
| 3774 | b # another comment |
| 3775 | ); |
| 3776 | |
| 3777 | when you should have written this: |
| 3778 | |
| 3779 | @list = qw( |
| 3780 | a |
| 3781 | b |
| 3782 | ); |
| 3783 | |
| 3784 | If you really want comments, build your list the |
| 3785 | old-fashioned way, with quotes and commas: |
| 3786 | |
| 3787 | @list = ( |
| 3788 | 'a', # a comment |
| 3789 | 'b', # another comment |
| 3790 | ); |
| 3791 | |
| 3792 | =item Possible attempt to separate words with commas |
| 3793 | |
| 3794 | (W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; therefore |
| 3795 | commas aren't needed to separate the items. (You may have used |
| 3796 | different delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are also |
| 3797 | frequently used.) |
| 3798 | |
| 3799 | You probably wrote something like this: |
| 3800 | |
| 3801 | qw! a, b, c !; |
| 3802 | |
| 3803 | which puts literal commas into some of the list items. Write it without |
| 3804 | commas if you don't want them to appear in your data: |
| 3805 | |
| 3806 | qw! a b c !; |
| 3807 | |
| 3808 | =item Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument |
| 3809 | |
| 3810 | (F) An ioctl() or fcntl() returned more than Perl was bargaining for. |
| 3811 | Perl guesses a reasonable buffer size, but puts a sentinel byte at the |
| 3812 | end of the buffer just in case. This sentinel byte got clobbered, and |
| 3813 | Perl assumes that memory is now corrupted. See L<perlfunc/ioctl>. |
| 3814 | |
| 3815 | =item Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator |
| 3816 | |
| 3817 | (W precedence) Your program uses a bitwise logical operator in conjunction |
| 3818 | with a numeric comparison operator, like this : |
| 3819 | |
| 3820 | if ($x & $y == 0) { ... } |
| 3821 | |
| 3822 | This expression is actually equivalent to C<$x & ($y == 0)>, due to the |
| 3823 | higher precedence of C<==>. This is probably not what you want. (If you |
| 3824 | really meant to write this, disable the warning, or, better, put the |
| 3825 | parentheses explicitly and write C<$x & ($y == 0)>). |
| 3826 | |
| 3827 | =item Possible unintended interpolation of $\ in regex |
| 3828 | |
| 3829 | (W ambiguous) You said something like C<m/$\/> in a regex. |
| 3830 | The regex C<m/foo$\s+bar/m> translates to: match the word 'foo', the output |
| 3831 | record separator (see L<perlvar/$\>) and the letter 's' (one time or more) |
| 3832 | followed by the word 'bar'. |
| 3833 | |
| 3834 | If this is what you intended then you can silence the warning by using |
| 3835 | C<m/${\}/> (for example: C<m/foo${\}s+bar/>). |
| 3836 | |
| 3837 | If instead you intended to match the word 'foo' at the end of the line |
| 3838 | followed by whitespace and the word 'bar' on the next line then you can use |
| 3839 | C<m/$(?)\/> (for example: C<m/foo$(?)\s+bar/>). |
| 3840 | |
| 3841 | =item Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string |
| 3842 | |
| 3843 | (W ambiguous) You said something like '@foo' in a double-quoted string |
| 3844 | but there was no array C<@foo> in scope at the time. If you wanted a |
| 3845 | literal @foo, then write it as \@foo; otherwise find out what happened |
| 3846 | to the array you apparently lost track of. |
| 3847 | |
| 3848 | =item Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s) |
| 3849 | |
| 3850 | (S precedence) The old irregular construct |
| 3851 | |
| 3852 | open FOO || die; |
| 3853 | |
| 3854 | is now misinterpreted as |
| 3855 | |
| 3856 | open(FOO || die); |
| 3857 | |
| 3858 | because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary and |
| 3859 | list operators. (The old open was a little of both.) You must put |
| 3860 | parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new "or" operator instead |
| 3861 | of "||". |
| 3862 | |
| 3863 | =item Premature end of script headers |
| 3864 | |
| 3865 | See Server error. |
| 3866 | |
| 3867 | =item printf() on closed filehandle %s |
| 3868 | |
| 3869 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 3870 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 3871 | |
| 3872 | =item print() on closed filehandle %s |
| 3873 | |
| 3874 | (W closed) The filehandle you're printing on got itself closed sometime |
| 3875 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 3876 | |
| 3877 | =item Process terminated by SIG%s |
| 3878 | |
| 3879 | (W) This is a standard message issued by OS/2 applications, while *nix |
| 3880 | applications die in silence. It is considered a feature of the OS/2 |
| 3881 | port. One can easily disable this by appropriate sighandlers, see |
| 3882 | L<perlipc/"Signals">. See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT" |
| 3883 | in L<perlos2>. |
| 3884 | |
| 3885 | =item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s |
| 3886 | |
| 3887 | (W illegalproto) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is useless, |
| 3888 | since % and @ gobble the rest of the subroutine arguments. |
| 3889 | |
| 3890 | =item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s |
| 3891 | |
| 3892 | (S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been |
| 3893 | declared or defined with a different function prototype. |
| 3894 | |
| 3895 | =item Prototype not terminated |
| 3896 | |
| 3897 | (F) You've omitted the closing parenthesis in a function prototype |
| 3898 | definition. |
| 3899 | |
| 3900 | =item \p{} uses Unicode rules, not locale rules |
| 3901 | |
| 3902 | (W) You compiled a regular expression that contained a Unicode property |
| 3903 | match (C<\p> or C<\P>), but the regular expression is also being told to |
| 3904 | use the run-time locale, not Unicode. Instead, use a POSIX character |
| 3905 | class, which should know about the locale's rules. |
| 3906 | (See L<perlrecharclass/POSIX Character Classes>.) |
| 3907 | |
| 3908 | Even if the run-time locale is ISO 8859-1 (Latin1), which is a subset of |
| 3909 | Unicode, some properties will give results that are not valid for that |
| 3910 | subset. |
| 3911 | |
| 3912 | Here are a couple of examples to help you see what's going on. If the |
| 3913 | locale is ISO 8859-7, the character at code point 0xD7 is the "GREEK |
| 3914 | CAPITAL LETTER CHI". But in Unicode that code point means the |
| 3915 | "MULTIPLICATION SIGN" instead, and C<\p> always uses the Unicode |
| 3916 | meaning. That means that C<\p{Alpha}> won't match, but C<[[:alpha:]]> |
| 3917 | should. Only in the Latin1 locale are all the characters in the same |
| 3918 | positions as they are in Unicode. But, even here, some properties give |
| 3919 | incorrect results. An example is C<\p{Changes_When_Uppercased}> which |
| 3920 | is true for "LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS", but since the upper |
| 3921 | case of that character is not in Latin1, in that locale it doesn't |
| 3922 | change when upper cased. |
| 3923 | |
| 3924 | =item Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3925 | |
| 3926 | (F) You started a regular expression with a quantifier. Backslash it if you |
| 3927 | meant it literally. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3928 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3929 | |
| 3930 | =item Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3931 | |
| 3932 | (F) There is currently a limit to the size of the min and max values of the |
| 3933 | {min,max} construct. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where |
| 3934 | the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3935 | |
| 3936 | =item Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3937 | |
| 3938 | (W regexp) You applied a regular expression quantifier in a place where |
| 3939 | it makes no sense, such as on a zero-width assertion. Try putting the |
| 3940 | quantifier inside the assertion instead. For example, the way to match |
| 3941 | "abc" provided that it is followed by three repetitions of "xyz" is |
| 3942 | C</abc(?=(?:xyz){3})/>, not C</abc(?=xyz){3}/>. |
| 3943 | |
| 3944 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 3945 | discovered. |
| 3946 | |
| 3947 | =item Range iterator outside integer range |
| 3948 | |
| 3949 | (F) One (or both) of the numeric arguments to the range operator ".." |
| 3950 | are outside the range which can be represented by integers internally. |
| 3951 | One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string increment |
| 3952 | by prepending "0" to your numbers. |
| 3953 | |
| 3954 | =item readdir() attempted on invalid dirhandle %s |
| 3955 | |
| 3956 | (W io) The dirhandle you're reading from is either closed or not really |
| 3957 | a dirhandle. Check your control flow. |
| 3958 | |
| 3959 | =item readline() on closed filehandle %s |
| 3960 | |
| 3961 | (W closed) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime |
| 3962 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 3963 | |
| 3964 | =item read() on closed filehandle %s |
| 3965 | |
| 3966 | (W closed) You tried to read from a closed filehandle. |
| 3967 | |
| 3968 | =item read() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 3969 | |
| 3970 | (W unopened) You tried to read from a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 3971 | |
| 3972 | =item Reallocation too large: %x |
| 3973 | |
| 3974 | (F) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. |
| 3975 | |
| 3976 | =item realloc() of freed memory ignored |
| 3977 | |
| 3978 | (S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had |
| 3979 | already been freed. |
| 3980 | |
| 3981 | =item Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING to use B<-D> switch |
| 3982 | |
| 3983 | (F debugging) You can't use the B<-D> option unless the code to produce |
| 3984 | the desired output is compiled into Perl, which entails some overhead, |
| 3985 | which is why it's currently left out of your copy. |
| 3986 | |
| 3987 | =item Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s' |
| 3988 | |
| 3989 | (F) While calculating the method resolution order (MRO) of a package, Perl |
| 3990 | believes it found an infinite loop in the C<@ISA> hierarchy. This is a |
| 3991 | crude check that bails out after 100 levels of C<@ISA> depth. |
| 3992 | |
| 3993 | =item refcnt_dec: fd %d%s |
| 3994 | |
| 3995 | =item refcnt: fd %d%s |
| 3996 | |
| 3997 | =item refcnt_inc: fd %d%s |
| 3998 | |
| 3999 | (P) Perl's I/O implementation failed an internal consistency check. If |
| 4000 | you see this message, something is very wrong. |
| 4001 | |
| 4002 | =item Reference found where even-sized list expected |
| 4003 | |
| 4004 | (W misc) You gave a single reference where Perl was expecting a list |
| 4005 | with an even number of elements (for assignment to a hash). This usually |
| 4006 | means that you used the anon hash constructor when you meant to use |
| 4007 | parens. In any case, a hash requires key/value B<pairs>. |
| 4008 | |
| 4009 | %hash = { one => 1, two => 2, }; # WRONG |
| 4010 | %hash = [ qw/ an anon array / ]; # WRONG |
| 4011 | %hash = ( one => 1, two => 2, ); # right |
| 4012 | %hash = qw( one 1 two 2 ); # also fine |
| 4013 | |
| 4014 | =item Reference is already weak |
| 4015 | |
| 4016 | (W misc) You have attempted to weaken a reference that is already weak. |
| 4017 | Doing so has no effect. |
| 4018 | |
| 4019 | =item Reference to invalid group 0 |
| 4020 | |
| 4021 | (F) You used C<\g0> or similar in a regular expression. You may refer to |
| 4022 | capturing parentheses only with strictly positive integers (normal |
| 4023 | backreferences) or with strictly negative integers (relative |
| 4024 | backreferences). Using 0 does not make sense. |
| 4025 | |
| 4026 | =item Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4027 | |
| 4028 | (F) You used something like C<\7> in your regular expression, but there are |
| 4029 | not at least seven sets of capturing parentheses in the expression. If |
| 4030 | you wanted to have the character with ordinal 7 inserted into the regular |
| 4031 | expression, prepend zeroes to make it three digits long: C<\007> |
| 4032 | |
| 4033 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4034 | discovered. |
| 4035 | |
| 4036 | =item Reference to nonexistent named group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4037 | |
| 4038 | (F) You used something like C<\k'NAME'> or C<< \k<NAME> >> in your regular |
| 4039 | expression, but there is no corresponding named capturing parentheses |
| 4040 | such as C<(?'NAME'...)> or C<< (?<NAME>...) >>. Check if the name has been |
| 4041 | spelled correctly both in the backreference and the declaration. |
| 4042 | |
| 4043 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4044 | discovered. |
| 4045 | |
| 4046 | =item Reference to nonexistent or unclosed group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4047 | |
| 4048 | (F) You used something like C<\g{-7}> in your regular expression, but there |
| 4049 | are not at least seven sets of closed capturing parentheses in the |
| 4050 | expression before where the C<\g{-7}> was located. |
| 4051 | |
| 4052 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4053 | discovered. |
| 4054 | |
| 4055 | =item regexp memory corruption |
| 4056 | |
| 4057 | (P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular |
| 4058 | expression compiler gave it. |
| 4059 | |
| 4060 | =item Regexp modifier "/%c" may appear a maximum of twice |
| 4061 | |
| 4062 | =item Regexp modifier "/%c" may not appear twice |
| 4063 | |
| 4064 | (F syntax, regexp) The regular expression pattern had too many occurrences |
| 4065 | of the specified modifier. Remove the extraneous ones. |
| 4066 | |
| 4067 | =item Regexp modifier "%c" may not appear after the "-" |
| 4068 | |
| 4069 | (F regexp) Turning off the given modifier has the side effect of turning |
| 4070 | on another one. Perl currently doesn't allow this. Reword the regular |
| 4071 | expression to use the modifier you want to turn on (and place it before |
| 4072 | the minus), instead of the one you want to turn off. |
| 4073 | |
| 4074 | =item Regexp modifiers "/%c" and "/%c" are mutually exclusive |
| 4075 | |
| 4076 | (F syntax, regexp) The regular expression pattern had more than one of these |
| 4077 | mutually exclusive modifiers. Retain only the modifier that is |
| 4078 | supposed to be there. |
| 4079 | |
| 4080 | =item Regexp out of space |
| 4081 | |
| 4082 | (P) A "can't happen" error, because safemalloc() should have caught it |
| 4083 | earlier. |
| 4084 | |
| 4085 | =item Repeated format line will never terminate (~~ and @# incompatible) |
| 4086 | |
| 4087 | (F) Your format contains the ~~ repeat-until-blank sequence and a |
| 4088 | numeric field that will never go blank so that the repetition never |
| 4089 | terminates. You might use ^# instead. See L<perlform>. |
| 4090 | |
| 4091 | =item Replacement list is longer than search list |
| 4092 | |
| 4093 | (W misc) You have used a replacement list that is longer than the |
| 4094 | search list. So the additional elements in the replacement list |
| 4095 | are meaningless. |
| 4096 | |
| 4097 | =item Reversed %s= operator |
| 4098 | |
| 4099 | (W syntax) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The = must |
| 4100 | always come last, to avoid ambiguity with subsequent unary operators. |
| 4101 | |
| 4102 | =item rewinddir() attempted on invalid dirhandle %s |
| 4103 | |
| 4104 | (W io) The dirhandle you tried to do a rewinddir() on is either closed or not |
| 4105 | really a dirhandle. Check your control flow. |
| 4106 | |
| 4107 | =item Scalars leaked: %d |
| 4108 | |
| 4109 | (P) Something went wrong in Perl's internal bookkeeping of scalars: |
| 4110 | not all scalar variables were deallocated by the time Perl exited. |
| 4111 | What this usually indicates is a memory leak, which is of course bad, |
| 4112 | especially if the Perl program is intended to be long-running. |
| 4113 | |
| 4114 | =item Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s] |
| 4115 | |
| 4116 | (W syntax) You've used an array slice (indicated by @) to select a |
| 4117 | single element of an array. Generally it's better to ask for a scalar |
| 4118 | value (indicated by $). The difference is that C<$foo[&bar]> always |
| 4119 | behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its |
| 4120 | argument, while C<@foo[&bar]> behaves like a list when you assign to it, |
| 4121 | and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things |
| 4122 | if you're expecting only one subscript. |
| 4123 | |
| 4124 | On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the array |
| 4125 | element as a list, you need to look into how references work, because |
| 4126 | Perl will not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See |
| 4127 | L<perlref>. |
| 4128 | |
| 4129 | =item Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s} |
| 4130 | |
| 4131 | (W syntax) You've used a hash slice (indicated by @) to select a single |
| 4132 | element of a hash. Generally it's better to ask for a scalar value |
| 4133 | (indicated by $). The difference is that C<$foo{&bar}> always behaves |
| 4134 | like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its |
| 4135 | argument, while C<@foo{&bar}> behaves like a list when you assign to it, |
| 4136 | and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things |
| 4137 | if you're expecting only one subscript. |
| 4138 | |
| 4139 | On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the hash element |
| 4140 | as a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will |
| 4141 | not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See |
| 4142 | L<perlref>. |
| 4143 | |
| 4144 | =item Search pattern not terminated |
| 4145 | |
| 4146 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a // or m{} |
| 4147 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 4148 | Missing the leading C<$> from a variable C<$m> may cause this error. |
| 4149 | |
| 4150 | Note that since Perl 5.9.0 a // can also be the I<defined-or> |
| 4151 | construct, not just the empty search pattern. Therefore code written |
| 4152 | in Perl 5.9.0 or later that uses the // as the I<defined-or> can be |
| 4153 | misparsed by pre-5.9.0 Perls as a non-terminated search pattern. |
| 4154 | |
| 4155 | =item Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search pattern |
| 4156 | |
| 4157 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a C<?PATTERN?> |
| 4158 | construct. |
| 4159 | |
| 4160 | The question mark is also used as part of the ternary operator (as in |
| 4161 | C<foo ? 0 : 1>) leading to some ambiguous constructions being wrongly |
| 4162 | parsed. One way to disambiguate the parsing is to put parentheses around |
| 4163 | the conditional expression, i.e. C<(foo) ? 0 : 1>. |
| 4164 | |
| 4165 | =item seekdir() attempted on invalid dirhandle %s |
| 4166 | |
| 4167 | (W io) The dirhandle you are doing a seekdir() on is either closed or not |
| 4168 | really a dirhandle. Check your control flow. |
| 4169 | |
| 4170 | =item %sseek() on unopened filehandle |
| 4171 | |
| 4172 | (W unopened) You tried to use the seek() or sysseek() function on a |
| 4173 | filehandle that was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 4174 | |
| 4175 | =item select not implemented |
| 4176 | |
| 4177 | (F) This machine doesn't implement the select() system call. |
| 4178 | |
| 4179 | =item Self-ties of arrays and hashes are not supported |
| 4180 | |
| 4181 | (F) Self-ties are of arrays and hashes are not supported in |
| 4182 | the current implementation. |
| 4183 | |
| 4184 | =item Semicolon seems to be missing |
| 4185 | |
| 4186 | (W semicolon) A nearby syntax error was probably caused by a missing |
| 4187 | semicolon, or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma. |
| 4188 | |
| 4189 | =item semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string |
| 4190 | |
| 4191 | (S internal) The internal newSVsv() routine was called to duplicate a |
| 4192 | scalar that had previously been marked as free. |
| 4193 | |
| 4194 | =item sem%s not implemented |
| 4195 | |
| 4196 | (F) You don't have System V semaphore IPC on your system. |
| 4197 | |
| 4198 | =item send() on closed socket %s |
| 4199 | |
| 4200 | (W closed) The socket you're sending to got itself closed sometime |
| 4201 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 4202 | |
| 4203 | =item Sequence (? incomplete in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4204 | |
| 4205 | (F) A regular expression ended with an incomplete extension (?. The <-- HERE |
| 4206 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 4207 | L<perlre>. |
| 4208 | |
| 4209 | =item Sequence (?%s...) not implemented in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4210 | |
| 4211 | (F) A proposed regular expression extension has the character reserved but |
| 4212 | has not yet been written. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 4213 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4214 | |
| 4215 | =item Sequence (?%s...) not recognized in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4216 | |
| 4217 | (F) You used a regular expression extension that doesn't make sense. The |
| 4218 | <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4219 | discovered. This happens when using the C<(?^...)> construct to tell |
| 4220 | Perl to use the default regular expression modifiers, and you |
| 4221 | redundantly specify a default modifier. For other |
| 4222 | causes, see L<perlre>. |
| 4223 | |
| 4224 | =item Sequence \%s... not terminated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4225 | |
| 4226 | (F) The regular expression expects a mandatory argument following the escape |
| 4227 | sequence and this has been omitted or incorrectly written. |
| 4228 | |
| 4229 | =item Sequence (?#... not terminated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4230 | |
| 4231 | (F) A regular expression comment must be terminated by a closing |
| 4232 | parenthesis. Embedded parentheses aren't allowed. The <-- HERE shows in |
| 4233 | the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 4234 | L<perlre>. |
| 4235 | |
| 4236 | =item Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or not {}-balanced in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4237 | |
| 4238 | (F) If the contents of a (?{...}) clause contain braces, they must balance |
| 4239 | for Perl to detect the end of the clause properly. The <-- HERE shows in |
| 4240 | the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 4241 | L<perlre>. |
| 4242 | |
| 4243 | =item Z<>500 Server error |
| 4244 | |
| 4245 | See Server error. |
| 4246 | |
| 4247 | =item Server error |
| 4248 | |
| 4249 | (A) This is the error message generally seen in a browser window when trying |
| 4250 | to run a CGI program (including SSI) over the web. The actual error text |
| 4251 | varies widely from server to server. The most frequently-seen variants |
| 4252 | are "500 Server error", "Method (something) not permitted", "Document |
| 4253 | contains no data", "Premature end of script headers", and "Did not |
| 4254 | produce a valid header". |
| 4255 | |
| 4256 | B<This is a CGI error, not a Perl error>. |
| 4257 | |
| 4258 | You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible by the |
| 4259 | user CGI is running the script under (which is probably not the user |
| 4260 | account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables |
| 4261 | (like PATH) from the user it isn't running under, and isn't in a |
| 4262 | location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less. |
| 4263 | Please see the following for more information: |
| 4264 | |
| 4265 | http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html |
| 4266 | http://www.htmlhelp.org/faq/cgifaq.html |
| 4267 | http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/ |
| 4268 | |
| 4269 | You should also look at L<perlfaq9>. |
| 4270 | |
| 4271 | =item setegid() not implemented |
| 4272 | |
| 4273 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$)>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 4274 | support the setegid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 4275 | didn't think so. |
| 4276 | |
| 4277 | =item seteuid() not implemented |
| 4278 | |
| 4279 | (F) You tried to assign to C<< $> >>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 4280 | support the seteuid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 4281 | didn't think so. |
| 4282 | |
| 4283 | =item setpgrp can't take arguments |
| 4284 | |
| 4285 | (F) Your system has the setpgrp() from BSD 4.2, which takes no |
| 4286 | arguments, unlike POSIX setpgid(), which takes a process ID and process |
| 4287 | group ID. |
| 4288 | |
| 4289 | =item setrgid() not implemented |
| 4290 | |
| 4291 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$(>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 4292 | support the setrgid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 4293 | didn't think so. |
| 4294 | |
| 4295 | =item setruid() not implemented |
| 4296 | |
| 4297 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$<>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 4298 | support the setruid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 4299 | didn't think so. |
| 4300 | |
| 4301 | =item setsockopt() on closed socket %s |
| 4302 | |
| 4303 | (W closed) You tried to set a socket option on a closed socket. Did you |
| 4304 | forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 4305 | L<perlfunc/setsockopt>. |
| 4306 | |
| 4307 | =item shm%s not implemented |
| 4308 | |
| 4309 | (F) You don't have System V shared memory IPC on your system. |
| 4310 | |
| 4311 | =item !=~ should be !~ |
| 4312 | |
| 4313 | (W syntax) The non-matching operator is !~, not !=~. !=~ will be |
| 4314 | interpreted as the != (numeric not equal) and ~ (1's complement) |
| 4315 | operators: probably not what you intended. |
| 4316 | |
| 4317 | =item <> should be quotes |
| 4318 | |
| 4319 | (F) You wrote C<< require <file> >> when you should have written |
| 4320 | C<require 'file'>. |
| 4321 | |
| 4322 | =item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s" |
| 4323 | |
| 4324 | (W syntax) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string, |
| 4325 | as in the first argument to C<join>. Perl will treat the true or false |
| 4326 | result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string, which is |
| 4327 | probably not what you had in mind. |
| 4328 | |
| 4329 | =item shutdown() on closed socket %s |
| 4330 | |
| 4331 | (W closed) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket. Seems a bit |
| 4332 | superfluous. |
| 4333 | |
| 4334 | =item SIG%s handler "%s" not defined |
| 4335 | |
| 4336 | (W signal) The signal handler named in %SIG doesn't, in fact, exist. |
| 4337 | Perhaps you put it into the wrong package? |
| 4338 | |
| 4339 | =item Smart matching a non-overloaded object breaks encapsulation |
| 4340 | |
| 4341 | (F) You should not use the C<~~> operator on an object that does not |
| 4342 | overload it: Perl refuses to use the object's underlying structure for |
| 4343 | the smart match. |
| 4344 | |
| 4345 | =item sort is now a reserved word |
| 4346 | |
| 4347 | (F) An ancient error message that almost nobody ever runs into anymore. |
| 4348 | But before sort was a keyword, people sometimes used it as a filehandle. |
| 4349 | |
| 4350 | =item Sort subroutine didn't return single value |
| 4351 | |
| 4352 | (F) A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more |
| 4353 | or less than one element. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 4354 | |
| 4355 | =item Source filters apply only to byte streams |
| 4356 | |
| 4357 | (F) You tried to activate a source filter (usually by loading a |
| 4358 | source filter module) within a string passed to C<eval>. This is |
| 4359 | not permitted under the C<unicode_eval> feature. Consider using |
| 4360 | C<evalbytes> instead. See L<feature>. |
| 4361 | |
| 4362 | =item splice() offset past end of array |
| 4363 | |
| 4364 | (W misc) You attempted to specify an offset that was past the end of |
| 4365 | the array passed to splice(). Splicing will instead commence at the end |
| 4366 | of the array, rather than past it. If this isn't what you want, try |
| 4367 | explicitly pre-extending the array by assigning $#array = $offset. See |
| 4368 | L<perlfunc/splice>. |
| 4369 | |
| 4370 | =item Split loop |
| 4371 | |
| 4372 | (P) The split was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a split shouldn't |
| 4373 | iterate more times than there are characters of input, which is what |
| 4374 | happened.) See L<perlfunc/split>. |
| 4375 | |
| 4376 | =item Statement unlikely to be reached |
| 4377 | |
| 4378 | (W exec) You did an exec() with some statement after it other than a |
| 4379 | die(). This is almost always an error, because exec() never returns |
| 4380 | unless there was a failure. You probably wanted to use system() |
| 4381 | instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in |
| 4382 | a block by itself. |
| 4383 | |
| 4384 | =item "state" variable %s can't be in a package |
| 4385 | |
| 4386 | (F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make |
| 4387 | sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use |
| 4388 | local() if you want to localize a package variable. |
| 4389 | |
| 4390 | =item stat() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 4391 | |
| 4392 | (W unopened) You tried to use the stat() function on a filehandle that |
| 4393 | was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 4394 | |
| 4395 | =item Stub found while resolving method "%s" overloading "%s" in package "%s" |
| 4396 | |
| 4397 | (P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation |
| 4398 | stubs. Stubs should never be implicitly created, but explicit calls to |
| 4399 | C<can> may break this. |
| 4400 | |
| 4401 | =item Subroutine %s redefined |
| 4402 | |
| 4403 | (W redefine) You redefined a subroutine. To suppress this warning, say |
| 4404 | |
| 4405 | { |
| 4406 | no warnings 'redefine'; |
| 4407 | eval "sub name { ... }"; |
| 4408 | } |
| 4409 | |
| 4410 | =item Substitution loop |
| 4411 | |
| 4412 | (P) The substitution was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a substitution |
| 4413 | shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of input, which |
| 4414 | is what happened.) See the discussion of substitution in |
| 4415 | L<perlop/"Regexp Quote-Like Operators">. |
| 4416 | |
| 4417 | =item Substitution pattern not terminated |
| 4418 | |
| 4419 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of an s/// or s{}{} |
| 4420 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 4421 | Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. |
| 4422 | |
| 4423 | =item Substitution replacement not terminated |
| 4424 | |
| 4425 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of an s/// or s{}{} |
| 4426 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 4427 | Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. |
| 4428 | |
| 4429 | =item substr outside of string |
| 4430 | |
| 4431 | (W substr),(F) You tried to reference a substr() that pointed outside of |
| 4432 | a string. That is, the absolute value of the offset was larger than the |
| 4433 | length of the string. See L<perlfunc/substr>. This warning is fatal if |
| 4434 | substr is used in an lvalue context (as the left hand side of an |
| 4435 | assignment or as a subroutine argument for example). |
| 4436 | |
| 4437 | =item sv_upgrade from type %d down to type %d |
| 4438 | |
| 4439 | (P) Perl tried to force the upgrade of an SV to a type which was actually |
| 4440 | inferior to its current type. |
| 4441 | |
| 4442 | =item Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4443 | |
| 4444 | (F) A (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct can have at most two |
| 4445 | branches (the if-clause and the else-clause). If you want one or both to |
| 4446 | contain alternation, such as using C<this|that|other>, enclose it in |
| 4447 | clustering parentheses: |
| 4448 | |
| 4449 | (?(condition)(?:this|that|other)|else-clause) |
| 4450 | |
| 4451 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4452 | discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4453 | |
| 4454 | =item Switch condition not recognized in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4455 | |
| 4456 | (F) If the argument to the (?(...)if-clause|else-clause) construct is |
| 4457 | a number, it can be only a number. The <-- HERE shows in the regular |
| 4458 | expression about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4459 | |
| 4460 | =item switching effective %s is not implemented |
| 4461 | |
| 4462 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, we cannot switch the real |
| 4463 | and effective uids or gids. |
| 4464 | |
| 4465 | =item %s syntax OK |
| 4466 | |
| 4467 | (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> succeeds. |
| 4468 | |
| 4469 | =item syntax error |
| 4470 | |
| 4471 | (F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include: |
| 4472 | |
| 4473 | A keyword is misspelled. |
| 4474 | A semicolon is missing. |
| 4475 | A comma is missing. |
| 4476 | An opening or closing parenthesis is missing. |
| 4477 | An opening or closing brace is missing. |
| 4478 | A closing quote is missing. |
| 4479 | |
| 4480 | Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax |
| 4481 | error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on B<-w>.) |
| 4482 | The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when |
| 4483 | it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens |
| 4484 | before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input. |
| 4485 | Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon |
| 4486 | the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call |
| 4487 | C<perl -c> repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see |
| 4488 | if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20 questions>. |
| 4489 | |
| 4490 | =item syntax error at line %d: '%s' unexpected |
| 4491 | |
| 4492 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead |
| 4493 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl |
| 4494 | yourself. |
| 4495 | |
| 4496 | =item syntax error in file %s at line %d, next 2 tokens "%s" |
| 4497 | |
| 4498 | (F) This error is likely to occur if you run a perl5 script through |
| 4499 | a perl4 interpreter, especially if the next 2 tokens are "use strict" |
| 4500 | or "my $var" or "our $var". |
| 4501 | |
| 4502 | =item sysread() on closed filehandle %s |
| 4503 | |
| 4504 | (W closed) You tried to read from a closed filehandle. |
| 4505 | |
| 4506 | =item sysread() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 4507 | |
| 4508 | (W unopened) You tried to read from a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 4509 | |
| 4510 | =item System V %s is not implemented on this machine |
| 4511 | |
| 4512 | (F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", |
| 4513 | "shm", or "msg" but that System V IPC is not implemented in your |
| 4514 | machine. In some machines the functionality can exist but be |
| 4515 | unconfigured. Consult your system support. |
| 4516 | |
| 4517 | =item syswrite() on closed filehandle %s |
| 4518 | |
| 4519 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 4520 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 4521 | |
| 4522 | =item C<-T> and C<-B> not implemented on filehandles |
| 4523 | |
| 4524 | (F) Perl can't peek at the stdio buffer of filehandles when it doesn't |
| 4525 | know about your kind of stdio. You'll have to use a filename instead. |
| 4526 | |
| 4527 | =item Target of goto is too deeply nested |
| 4528 | |
| 4529 | (F) You tried to use C<goto> to reach a label that was too deeply nested |
| 4530 | for Perl to reach. Perl is doing you a favor by refusing. |
| 4531 | |
| 4532 | =item telldir() attempted on invalid dirhandle %s |
| 4533 | |
| 4534 | (W io) The dirhandle you tried to telldir() is either closed or not really |
| 4535 | a dirhandle. Check your control flow. |
| 4536 | |
| 4537 | =item tell() on unopened filehandle |
| 4538 | |
| 4539 | (W unopened) You tried to use the tell() function on a filehandle that |
| 4540 | was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 4541 | |
| 4542 | =item That use of $[ is unsupported |
| 4543 | |
| 4544 | (F) Assignment to C<$[> is now strictly circumscribed, and interpreted |
| 4545 | as a compiler directive. You may say only one of |
| 4546 | |
| 4547 | $[ = 0; |
| 4548 | $[ = 1; |
| 4549 | ... |
| 4550 | local $[ = 0; |
| 4551 | local $[ = 1; |
| 4552 | ... |
| 4553 | |
| 4554 | This is to prevent the problem of one module changing the array base out |
| 4555 | from under another module inadvertently. See L<perlvar/$[> and L<arybase>. |
| 4556 | |
| 4557 | =item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia |
| 4558 | |
| 4559 | (F) Configure couldn't find the crypt() function on your machine, |
| 4560 | probably because your vendor didn't supply it, probably because they |
| 4561 | think the U.S. Government thinks it's a secret, or at least that they |
| 4562 | will continue to pretend that it is. And if you quote me on that, I |
| 4563 | will deny it. |
| 4564 | |
| 4565 | =item The %s function is unimplemented |
| 4566 | |
| 4567 | (F) The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according |
| 4568 | to the probings of Configure. |
| 4569 | |
| 4570 | =item The stat preceding %s wasn't an lstat |
| 4571 | |
| 4572 | (F) It makes no sense to test the current stat buffer for symbolic |
| 4573 | linkhood if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer already went |
| 4574 | past the symlink to get to the real file. Use an actual filename |
| 4575 | instead. |
| 4576 | |
| 4577 | =item The 'unique' attribute may only be applied to 'our' variables |
| 4578 | |
| 4579 | (F) This attribute was never supported on C<my> or C<sub> declarations. |
| 4580 | |
| 4581 | =item This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s) |
| 4582 | |
| 4583 | =item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s) |
| 4584 | |
| 4585 | (W internal) Warnings peculiar to VMS. You tried to change or delete an |
| 4586 | element of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl |
| 4587 | wasn't built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function. You'll |
| 4588 | need to rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine |
| 4589 | F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the |
| 4590 | target of the change to |
| 4591 | %ENV which produced the warning. |
| 4592 | |
| 4593 | =item thread failed to start: %s |
| 4594 | |
| 4595 | (W threads)(S) The entry point function of threads->create() failed for some reason. |
| 4596 | |
| 4597 | =item times not implemented |
| 4598 | |
| 4599 | (F) Your version of the C library apparently doesn't do times(). I |
| 4600 | suspect you're not running on Unix. |
| 4601 | |
| 4602 | =item "-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line |
| 4603 | |
| 4604 | (X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the |
| 4605 | B<-T> option (or the B<-t> option), but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its command line. |
| 4606 | This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in a |
| 4607 | script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the environment. |
| 4608 | So Perl gives up. |
| 4609 | |
| 4610 | If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #! |
| 4611 | mechanism (or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed by |
| 4612 | editing the #! line so that the B<-%c> option is a part of Perl's first |
| 4613 | argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -%c> to C<perl -%c -n>. |
| 4614 | |
| 4615 | If the Perl script is being executed as C<perl scriptname>, then the |
| 4616 | B<-%c> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -%c scriptname>. |
| 4617 | |
| 4618 | =item To%s: illegal mapping '%s' |
| 4619 | |
| 4620 | (F) You tried to define a customized To-mapping for lc(), lcfirst, |
| 4621 | uc(), or ucfirst() (or their string-inlined versions), but you |
| 4622 | specified an illegal mapping. |
| 4623 | See L<perlunicode/"User-Defined Character Properties">. |
| 4624 | |
| 4625 | =item Too deeply nested ()-groups |
| 4626 | |
| 4627 | (F) Your template contains ()-groups with a ridiculously deep nesting level. |
| 4628 | |
| 4629 | =item Too few args to syscall |
| 4630 | |
| 4631 | (F) There has to be at least one argument to syscall() to specify the |
| 4632 | system call to call, silly dilly. |
| 4633 | |
| 4634 | =item Too late for "-%s" option |
| 4635 | |
| 4636 | (X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the |
| 4637 | B<-M>, B<-m> or B<-C> option. |
| 4638 | |
| 4639 | In the case of B<-M> and B<-m>, this is an error because those options are |
| 4640 | not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead. |
| 4641 | |
| 4642 | The B<-C> option only works if it is specified on the command line as well |
| 4643 | (with the same sequence of letters or numbers following). Either specify |
| 4644 | this option on the command line, or, if your system supports it, make your |
| 4645 | script executable and run it directly instead of passing it to perl. |
| 4646 | |
| 4647 | =item Too late to run %s block |
| 4648 | |
| 4649 | (W void) A CHECK or INIT block is being defined during run time proper, |
| 4650 | when the opportunity to run them has already passed. Perhaps you are |
| 4651 | loading a file with C<require> or C<do> when you should be using C<use> |
| 4652 | instead. Or perhaps you should put the C<require> or C<do> inside a |
| 4653 | BEGIN block. |
| 4654 | |
| 4655 | =item Too many args to syscall |
| 4656 | |
| 4657 | (F) Perl supports a maximum of only 14 args to syscall(). |
| 4658 | |
| 4659 | =item Too many arguments for %s |
| 4660 | |
| 4661 | (F) The function requires fewer arguments than you specified. |
| 4662 | |
| 4663 | =item Too many )'s |
| 4664 | |
| 4665 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 4666 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 4667 | |
| 4668 | =item Too many ('s |
| 4669 | |
| 4670 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 4671 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 4672 | |
| 4673 | =item Trailing \ in regex m/%s/ |
| 4674 | |
| 4675 | (F) The regular expression ends with an unbackslashed backslash. |
| 4676 | Backslash it. See L<perlre>. |
| 4677 | |
| 4678 | =item Transliteration pattern not terminated |
| 4679 | |
| 4680 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][] |
| 4681 | or y/// or y[][] construct. Missing the leading C<$> from variables |
| 4682 | C<$tr> or C<$y> may cause this error. |
| 4683 | |
| 4684 | =item Transliteration replacement not terminated |
| 4685 | |
| 4686 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a tr///, tr[][], |
| 4687 | y/// or y[][] construct. |
| 4688 | |
| 4689 | =item '%s' trapped by operation mask |
| 4690 | |
| 4691 | (F) You tried to use an operator from a Safe compartment in which it's |
| 4692 | disallowed. See L<Safe>. |
| 4693 | |
| 4694 | =item truncate not implemented |
| 4695 | |
| 4696 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement a file truncation mechanism that |
| 4697 | Configure knows about. |
| 4698 | |
| 4699 | =item Type of arg %d to &CORE::%s must be %s |
| 4700 | |
| 4701 | (F) The subroutine in question in the CORE package requires its argument |
| 4702 | to be a hard reference to data of the specified type. Overloading is |
| 4703 | ignored, so a reference to an object that is not the specified type, but |
| 4704 | nonetheless has overloading to handle it, will still not be accepted. |
| 4705 | |
| 4706 | =item Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not %s) |
| 4707 | |
| 4708 | (F) This function requires the argument in that position to be of a |
| 4709 | certain type. Arrays must be @NAME or C<@{EXPR}>. Hashes must be |
| 4710 | %NAME or C<%{EXPR}>. No implicit dereferencing is allowed--use the |
| 4711 | {EXPR} forms as an explicit dereference. See L<perlref>. |
| 4712 | |
| 4713 | =item Type of argument to %s must be unblessed hashref or arrayref |
| 4714 | |
| 4715 | (F) You called C<keys>, C<values> or C<each> with a scalar argument that |
| 4716 | was not a reference to an unblessed hash or array. |
| 4717 | |
| 4718 | =item umask not implemented |
| 4719 | |
| 4720 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement the umask function and you tried to |
| 4721 | use it to restrict permissions for yourself (EXPR & 0700). |
| 4722 | |
| 4723 | =item Unable to create sub named "%s" |
| 4724 | |
| 4725 | (F) You attempted to create or access a subroutine with an illegal name. |
| 4726 | |
| 4727 | =item Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs |
| 4728 | |
| 4729 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 4730 | many execution contexts were entered and left. |
| 4731 | |
| 4732 | =item Unbalanced saves: %d more saves than restores |
| 4733 | |
| 4734 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 4735 | many values were temporarily localized. |
| 4736 | |
| 4737 | =item Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs |
| 4738 | |
| 4739 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 4740 | many blocks were entered and left. |
| 4741 | |
| 4742 | =item Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees |
| 4743 | |
| 4744 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 4745 | many mortal scalars were allocated and freed. |
| 4746 | |
| 4747 | =item Undefined format "%s" called |
| 4748 | |
| 4749 | (F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps it's really in |
| 4750 | another package? See L<perlform>. |
| 4751 | |
| 4752 | =item Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called |
| 4753 | |
| 4754 | (F) The sort comparison routine specified doesn't seem to exist. |
| 4755 | Perhaps it's in a different package? See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 4756 | |
| 4757 | =item Undefined subroutine &%s called |
| 4758 | |
| 4759 | (F) The subroutine indicated hasn't been defined, or if it was, it has |
| 4760 | since been undefined. |
| 4761 | |
| 4762 | =item Undefined subroutine called |
| 4763 | |
| 4764 | (F) The anonymous subroutine you're trying to call hasn't been defined, |
| 4765 | or if it was, it has since been undefined. |
| 4766 | |
| 4767 | =item Undefined subroutine in sort |
| 4768 | |
| 4769 | (F) The sort comparison routine specified is declared but doesn't seem |
| 4770 | to have been defined yet. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 4771 | |
| 4772 | =item Undefined top format "%s" called |
| 4773 | |
| 4774 | (F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps it's really in |
| 4775 | another package? See L<perlform>. |
| 4776 | |
| 4777 | =item Undefined value assigned to typeglob |
| 4778 | |
| 4779 | (W misc) An undefined value was assigned to a typeglob, a la |
| 4780 | C<*foo = undef>. This does nothing. It's possible that you really mean |
| 4781 | C<undef *foo>. |
| 4782 | |
| 4783 | =item %s: Undefined variable |
| 4784 | |
| 4785 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 4786 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 4787 | |
| 4788 | =item unexec of %s into %s failed! |
| 4789 | |
| 4790 | (F) The unexec() routine failed for some reason. See your local FSF |
| 4791 | representative, who probably put it there in the first place. |
| 4792 | |
| 4793 | =item Unicode non-character U+%X is illegal for open interchange |
| 4794 | |
| 4795 | (W utf8, nonchar) Certain codepoints, such as U+FFFE and U+FFFF, are |
| 4796 | defined by the |
| 4797 | Unicode standard to be non-characters. Those are legal codepoints, but are |
| 4798 | reserved for internal use; so, applications shouldn't attempt to exchange |
| 4799 | them. If you know what you are doing you can turn |
| 4800 | off this warning by C<no warnings 'nonchar';>. |
| 4801 | |
| 4802 | =item Unicode surrogate U+%X is illegal in UTF-8 |
| 4803 | |
| 4804 | (W utf8, surrogate) You had a UTF-16 surrogate in a context where they are |
| 4805 | not considered acceptable. These code points, between U+D800 and |
| 4806 | U+DFFF (inclusive), are used by Unicode only for UTF-16. However, Perl |
| 4807 | internally allows all unsigned integer code points (up to the size limit |
| 4808 | available on your platform), including surrogates. But these can cause |
| 4809 | problems when being input or output, which is likely where this message |
| 4810 | came from. If you really really know what you are doing you can turn |
| 4811 | off this warning by C<no warnings 'surrogate';>. |
| 4812 | |
| 4813 | =item Unknown BYTEORDER |
| 4814 | |
| 4815 | (F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte |
| 4816 | order. |
| 4817 | |
| 4818 | =item Unknown open() mode '%s' |
| 4819 | |
| 4820 | (F) The second argument of 3-argument open() is not among the list |
| 4821 | of valid modes: C<< < >>, C<< > >>, C<<< >> >>>, C<< +< >>, |
| 4822 | C<< +> >>, C<<< +>> >>>, C<-|>, C<|->, C<< <& >>, C<< >& >>. |
| 4823 | |
| 4824 | =item Unknown PerlIO layer "%s" |
| 4825 | |
| 4826 | (W layer) An attempt was made to push an unknown layer onto the Perl I/O |
| 4827 | system. (Layers take care of transforming data between external and |
| 4828 | internal representations.) Note that some layers, such as C<mmap>, |
| 4829 | are not supported in all environments. If your program didn't |
| 4830 | explicitly request the failing operation, it may be the result of the |
| 4831 | value of the environment variable PERLIO. |
| 4832 | |
| 4833 | =item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s |
| 4834 | |
| 4835 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl was reading values for %ENV before |
| 4836 | iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of |
| 4837 | data Perl expected. Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to |
| 4838 | subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes. |
| 4839 | |
| 4840 | =item Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s) |
| 4841 | |
| 4842 | (W) You tried to use an unknown subpragma of the "re" pragma. |
| 4843 | |
| 4844 | =item Unknown switch condition (?(%s in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4845 | |
| 4846 | (F) The condition part of a (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct |
| 4847 | is not known. The condition must be one of the following: |
| 4848 | |
| 4849 | (1) (2) ... true if 1st, 2nd, etc., capture matched |
| 4850 | (<NAME>) ('NAME') true if named capture matched |
| 4851 | (?=...) (?<=...) true if subpattern matches |
| 4852 | (?!...) (?<!...) true if subpattern fails to match |
| 4853 | (?{ CODE }) true if code returns a true value |
| 4854 | (R) true if evaluating inside recursion |
| 4855 | (R1) (R2) ... true if directly inside capture group 1, 2, etc. |
| 4856 | (R&NAME) true if directly inside named capture |
| 4857 | (DEFINE) always false; for defining named subpatterns |
| 4858 | |
| 4859 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 4860 | discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4861 | |
| 4862 | =item Unknown Unicode option letter '%c' |
| 4863 | |
| 4864 | (F) You specified an unknown Unicode option. See L<perlrun> documentation |
| 4865 | of the C<-C> switch for the list of known options. |
| 4866 | |
| 4867 | =item Unknown Unicode option value %x |
| 4868 | |
| 4869 | (F) You specified an unknown Unicode option. See L<perlrun> documentation |
| 4870 | of the C<-C> switch for the list of known options. |
| 4871 | |
| 4872 | =item Unknown verb pattern '%s' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4873 | |
| 4874 | (F) You either made a typo or have incorrectly put a C<*> quantifier |
| 4875 | after an open brace in your pattern. Check the pattern and review |
| 4876 | L<perlre> for details on legal verb patterns. |
| 4877 | |
| 4878 | =item Unknown warnings category '%s' |
| 4879 | |
| 4880 | (F) An error issued by the C<warnings> pragma. You specified a warnings |
| 4881 | category that is unknown to perl at this point. |
| 4882 | |
| 4883 | Note that if you want to enable a warnings category registered by a |
| 4884 | module (e.g. C<use warnings 'File::Find'>), you must have loaded this |
| 4885 | module first. |
| 4886 | |
| 4887 | =item unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4888 | |
| 4889 | (F) The brackets around a character class must match. If you wish to |
| 4890 | include a closing bracket in a character class, backslash it or put it |
| 4891 | first. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem |
| 4892 | was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4893 | |
| 4894 | =item unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4895 | |
| 4896 | (F) Unbackslashed parentheses must always be balanced in regular |
| 4897 | expressions. If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for finding the |
| 4898 | matching parenthesis. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 4899 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4900 | |
| 4901 | =item Unmatched right %s bracket |
| 4902 | |
| 4903 | (F) The lexer counted more closing curly or square brackets than opening |
| 4904 | ones, so you're probably missing a matching opening bracket. As a |
| 4905 | general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place |
| 4906 | you were last editing. |
| 4907 | |
| 4908 | =item Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word |
| 4909 | |
| 4910 | (W reserved) You used a bareword that might someday be claimed as a |
| 4911 | reserved word. It's best to put such a word in quotes, or capitalize it |
| 4912 | somehow, or insert an underbar into it. You might also declare it as a |
| 4913 | subroutine. |
| 4914 | |
| 4915 | =item Unrecognized character %s; marked by <-- HERE after %s near column %d |
| 4916 | |
| 4917 | (F) The Perl parser has no idea what to do with the specified character |
| 4918 | in your Perl script (or eval) near the specified column. Perhaps you tried |
| 4919 | to run a compressed script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program. |
| 4920 | |
| 4921 | =item Unrecognized escape \%c in character class passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4922 | |
| 4923 | (W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 4924 | recognized by Perl inside character classes. The character was |
| 4925 | understood literally, but this may change in a future version of Perl. |
| 4926 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 4927 | escape was discovered. |
| 4928 | |
| 4929 | =item Unrecognized escape \%c passed through |
| 4930 | |
| 4931 | (W misc) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 4932 | recognized by Perl. The character was understood literally, but this may |
| 4933 | change in a future version of Perl. |
| 4934 | |
| 4935 | =item Unrecognized escape \%s passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4936 | |
| 4937 | (W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 4938 | recognized by Perl. The character(s) were understood literally, but this may |
| 4939 | change in a future version of Perl. |
| 4940 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 4941 | escape was discovered. |
| 4942 | |
| 4943 | =item Unrecognized signal name "%s" |
| 4944 | |
| 4945 | (F) You specified a signal name to the kill() function that was not |
| 4946 | recognized. Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal names |
| 4947 | on your system. |
| 4948 | |
| 4949 | =item Unrecognized switch: -%s (-h will show valid options) |
| 4950 | |
| 4951 | (F) You specified an illegal option to Perl. Don't do that. (If you |
| 4952 | think you didn't do that, check the #! line to see if it's supplying the |
| 4953 | bad switch on your behalf.) |
| 4954 | |
| 4955 | =item Unsuccessful %s on filename containing newline |
| 4956 | |
| 4957 | (W newline) A file operation was attempted on a filename, and that |
| 4958 | operation failed, PROBABLY because the filename contained a newline, |
| 4959 | PROBABLY because you forgot to chomp() it off. See L<perlfunc/chomp>. |
| 4960 | |
| 4961 | =item Unsupported directory function "%s" called |
| 4962 | |
| 4963 | (F) Your machine doesn't support opendir() and readdir(). |
| 4964 | |
| 4965 | =item Unsupported function %s |
| 4966 | |
| 4967 | (F) This machine doesn't implement the indicated function, apparently. |
| 4968 | At least, Configure doesn't think so. |
| 4969 | |
| 4970 | =item Unsupported function fork |
| 4971 | |
| 4972 | (F) Your version of executable does not support forking. |
| 4973 | |
| 4974 | Note that under some systems, like OS/2, there may be different flavors |
| 4975 | of Perl executables, some of which may support fork, some not. Try |
| 4976 | changing the name you call Perl by to C<perl_>, C<perl__>, and so on. |
| 4977 | |
| 4978 | =item Unsupported script encoding %s |
| 4979 | |
| 4980 | (F) Your program file begins with a Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) which |
| 4981 | declares it to be in a Unicode encoding that Perl cannot read. |
| 4982 | |
| 4983 | =item Unsupported socket function "%s" called |
| 4984 | |
| 4985 | (F) Your machine doesn't support the Berkeley socket mechanism, or at |
| 4986 | least that's what Configure thought. |
| 4987 | |
| 4988 | =item Unterminated attribute list |
| 4989 | |
| 4990 | (F) The lexer found something other than a simple identifier at the |
| 4991 | start of an attribute, and it wasn't a semicolon or the start of a |
| 4992 | block. Perhaps you terminated the parameter list of the previous |
| 4993 | attribute too soon. See L<attributes>. |
| 4994 | |
| 4995 | =item Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list |
| 4996 | |
| 4997 | (F) The lexer saw an opening (left) parenthesis character while parsing |
| 4998 | an attribute list, but the matching closing (right) parenthesis |
| 4999 | character was not found. You may need to add (or remove) a backslash |
| 5000 | character to get your parentheses to balance. See L<attributes>. |
| 5001 | |
| 5002 | =item Unterminated compressed integer |
| 5003 | |
| 5004 | (F) An argument to unpack("w",...) was incompatible with the BER |
| 5005 | compressed integer format and could not be converted to an integer. |
| 5006 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 5007 | |
| 5008 | =item Unterminated \g{...} pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5009 | |
| 5010 | (F) You missed a close brace on a \g{..} pattern (group reference) in |
| 5011 | a regular expression. Fix the pattern and retry. |
| 5012 | |
| 5013 | =item Unterminated <> operator |
| 5014 | |
| 5015 | (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting |
| 5016 | a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and |
| 5017 | not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out |
| 5018 | earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". |
| 5019 | |
| 5020 | =item Unterminated verb pattern argument in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5021 | |
| 5022 | (F) You used a pattern of the form C<(*VERB:ARG)> but did not terminate |
| 5023 | the pattern with a C<)>. Fix the pattern and retry. |
| 5024 | |
| 5025 | =item Unterminated verb pattern in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5026 | |
| 5027 | (F) You used a pattern of the form C<(*VERB)> but did not terminate |
| 5028 | the pattern with a C<)>. Fix the pattern and retry. |
| 5029 | |
| 5030 | =item untie attempted while %d inner references still exist |
| 5031 | |
| 5032 | (W untie) A copy of the object returned from C<tie> (or C<tied>) was |
| 5033 | still valid when C<untie> was called. |
| 5034 | |
| 5035 | =item Usage: POSIX::%s(%s) |
| 5036 | |
| 5037 | (F) You called a POSIX function with incorrect arguments. |
| 5038 | See L<POSIX/FUNCTIONS> for more information. |
| 5039 | |
| 5040 | =item Usage: Win32::%s(%s) |
| 5041 | |
| 5042 | (F) You called a Win32 function with incorrect arguments. |
| 5043 | See L<Win32> for more information. |
| 5044 | |
| 5045 | =item $[ used in %s (did you mean $] ?) |
| 5046 | |
| 5047 | (W syntax) You used C<$[> in a comparison, such as: |
| 5048 | |
| 5049 | if ($[ > 5.006) { |
| 5050 | ... |
| 5051 | } |
| 5052 | |
| 5053 | You probably meant to use C<$]> instead. C<$[> is the base for indexing |
| 5054 | arrays. C<$]> is the Perl version number in decimal. |
| 5055 | |
| 5056 | =item Useless assignment to a temporary |
| 5057 | |
| 5058 | (W misc) You assigned to an lvalue subroutine, but what |
| 5059 | the subroutine returned was a temporary scalar about to |
| 5060 | be discarded, so the assignment had no effect. |
| 5061 | |
| 5062 | =item Useless (?-%s) - don't use /%s modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5063 | |
| 5064 | (W regexp) You have used an internal modifier such as (?-o) that has no |
| 5065 | meaning unless removed from the entire regexp: |
| 5066 | |
| 5067 | if ($string =~ /(?-o)$pattern/o) { ... } |
| 5068 | |
| 5069 | must be written as |
| 5070 | |
| 5071 | if ($string =~ /$pattern/) { ... } |
| 5072 | |
| 5073 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 5074 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 5075 | |
| 5076 | =item Useless localization of %s |
| 5077 | |
| 5078 | (W syntax) The localization of lvalues such as C<local($x=10)> is |
| 5079 | legal, but in fact the local() currently has no effect. This may change at |
| 5080 | some point in the future, but in the meantime such code is discouraged. |
| 5081 | |
| 5082 | =item Useless (?%s) - use /%s modifier in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5083 | |
| 5084 | (W regexp) You have used an internal modifier such as (?o) that has no |
| 5085 | meaning unless applied to the entire regexp: |
| 5086 | |
| 5087 | if ($string =~ /(?o)$pattern/) { ... } |
| 5088 | |
| 5089 | must be written as |
| 5090 | |
| 5091 | if ($string =~ /$pattern/o) { ... } |
| 5092 | |
| 5093 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 5094 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 5095 | |
| 5096 | =item Useless use of /d modifier in transliteration operator |
| 5097 | |
| 5098 | (W misc) You have used the /d modifier where the searchlist has the |
| 5099 | same length as the replacelist. See L<perlop> for more information |
| 5100 | about the /d modifier. |
| 5101 | |
| 5102 | =item Useless use of %s in void context |
| 5103 | |
| 5104 | (W void) You did something without a side effect in a context that does |
| 5105 | nothing with the return value, such as a statement that doesn't return a |
| 5106 | value from a block, or the left side of a scalar comma operator. Very |
| 5107 | often this points not to stupidity on your part, but a failure of Perl |
| 5108 | to parse your program the way you thought it would. For example, you'd |
| 5109 | get this if you mixed up your C precedence with Python precedence and |
| 5110 | said |
| 5111 | |
| 5112 | $one, $two = 1, 2; |
| 5113 | |
| 5114 | when you meant to say |
| 5115 | |
| 5116 | ($one, $two) = (1, 2); |
| 5117 | |
| 5118 | Another common error is to use ordinary parentheses to construct a list |
| 5119 | reference when you should be using square or curly brackets, for |
| 5120 | example, if you say |
| 5121 | |
| 5122 | $array = (1,2); |
| 5123 | |
| 5124 | when you should have said |
| 5125 | |
| 5126 | $array = [1,2]; |
| 5127 | |
| 5128 | The square brackets explicitly turn a list value into a scalar value, |
| 5129 | while parentheses do not. So when a parenthesized list is evaluated in |
| 5130 | a scalar context, the comma is treated like C's comma operator, which |
| 5131 | throws away the left argument, which is not what you want. See |
| 5132 | L<perlref> for more on this. |
| 5133 | |
| 5134 | This warning will not be issued for numerical constants equal to 0 or 1 |
| 5135 | since they are often used in statements like |
| 5136 | |
| 5137 | 1 while sub_with_side_effects(); |
| 5138 | |
| 5139 | String constants that would normally evaluate to 0 or 1 are warned |
| 5140 | about. |
| 5141 | |
| 5142 | =item Useless use of "re" pragma |
| 5143 | |
| 5144 | (W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments. That isn't very useful. |
| 5145 | |
| 5146 | =item Useless use of sort in scalar context |
| 5147 | |
| 5148 | (W void) You used sort in scalar context, as in : |
| 5149 | |
| 5150 | my $x = sort @y; |
| 5151 | |
| 5152 | This is not very useful, and perl currently optimizes this away. |
| 5153 | |
| 5154 | =item Useless use of %s with no values |
| 5155 | |
| 5156 | (W syntax) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments |
| 5157 | apart from the array, like C<push(@x)> or C<unshift(@foo)>. That won't |
| 5158 | usually have any effect on the array, so is completely useless. It's |
| 5159 | possible in principle that push(@tied_array) could have some effect |
| 5160 | if the array is tied to a class which implements a PUSH method. If so, |
| 5161 | you can write it as C<push(@tied_array,())> to avoid this warning. |
| 5162 | |
| 5163 | =item "use" not allowed in expression |
| 5164 | |
| 5165 | (F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and |
| 5166 | returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>. |
| 5167 | |
| 5168 | =item Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated |
| 5169 | |
| 5170 | (D deprecated) The C<$[> variable (index of the first element in an array) |
| 5171 | is deprecated. See L<perlvar/"$[">. |
| 5172 | |
| 5173 | =item Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated |
| 5174 | |
| 5175 | (D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted |
| 5176 | form if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document. |
| 5177 | |
| 5178 | =item Use of comma-less variable list is deprecated |
| 5179 | |
| 5180 | (D deprecated) The values you give to a format should be |
| 5181 | separated by commas, not just aligned on a line. |
| 5182 | |
| 5183 | =item Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() deprecated |
| 5184 | |
| 5185 | (D deprecated) chdir() with no arguments is documented to change to |
| 5186 | $ENV{HOME} or $ENV{LOGDIR}. chdir(undef) and chdir('') share this |
| 5187 | behavior, but that has been deprecated. In future versions they |
| 5188 | will simply fail. |
| 5189 | |
| 5190 | Be careful to check that what you pass to chdir() is defined and not |
| 5191 | blank, else you might find yourself in your home directory. |
| 5192 | |
| 5193 | =item Use of /c modifier is meaningless in s/// |
| 5194 | |
| 5195 | (W regexp) You used the /c modifier in a substitution. The /c |
| 5196 | modifier is not presently meaningful in substitutions. |
| 5197 | |
| 5198 | =item Use of /c modifier is meaningless without /g |
| 5199 | |
| 5200 | (W regexp) You used the /c modifier with a regex operand, but didn't |
| 5201 | use the /g modifier. Currently, /c is meaningful only when /g is |
| 5202 | used. (This may change in the future.) |
| 5203 | |
| 5204 | =item Use of := for an empty attribute list is not allowed |
| 5205 | |
| 5206 | (F) The construction C<my $x := 42> used to parse as equivalent to |
| 5207 | C<my $x : = 42> (applying an empty attribute list to C<$x>). |
| 5208 | This construct was deprecated in 5.12.0, and has now been made a syntax |
| 5209 | error, so C<:=> can be reclaimed as a new operator in the future. |
| 5210 | |
| 5211 | If you need an empty attribute list, for example in a code generator, add |
| 5212 | a space before the C<=>. |
| 5213 | |
| 5214 | =item Use of freed value in iteration |
| 5215 | |
| 5216 | (F) Perhaps you modified the iterated array within the loop? |
| 5217 | This error is typically caused by code like the following: |
| 5218 | |
| 5219 | @a = (3,4); |
| 5220 | @a = () for (1,2,@a); |
| 5221 | |
| 5222 | You are not supposed to modify arrays while they are being iterated over. |
| 5223 | For speed and efficiency reasons, Perl internally does not do full |
| 5224 | reference-counting of iterated items, hence deleting such an item in the |
| 5225 | middle of an iteration causes Perl to see a freed value. |
| 5226 | |
| 5227 | =item Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated |
| 5228 | |
| 5229 | (D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the shorter *glob{IO} form |
| 5230 | to access the filehandle slot within a typeglob. |
| 5231 | |
| 5232 | =item Use of /g modifier is meaningless in split |
| 5233 | |
| 5234 | (W regexp) You used the /g modifier on the pattern for a C<split> |
| 5235 | operator. Since C<split> always tries to match the pattern |
| 5236 | repeatedly, the C</g> has no effect. |
| 5237 | |
| 5238 | =item Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated |
| 5239 | |
| 5240 | (D deprecated) Using C<goto> to jump from an outer scope into an inner |
| 5241 | scope is deprecated and should be avoided. |
| 5242 | |
| 5243 | =item Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated |
| 5244 | |
| 5245 | (D deprecated) As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> |
| 5246 | subroutines are looked up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy) |
| 5247 | even when the subroutines to be autoloaded were called as plain |
| 5248 | functions (e.g. C<Foo::bar()>), not as methods (e.g. C<< Foo->bar() >> or |
| 5249 | C<< $obj->bar() >>). |
| 5250 | |
| 5251 | This bug will be rectified in future by using method lookup only for |
| 5252 | methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s. However, there is a significant base of existing |
| 5253 | code that may be using the old behavior. So, as an interim step, Perl |
| 5254 | currently issues an optional warning when non-methods use inherited |
| 5255 | C<AUTOLOAD>s. |
| 5256 | |
| 5257 | The simple rule is: Inheritance will not work when autoloading |
| 5258 | non-methods. The simple fix for old code is: In any module that used |
| 5259 | to depend on inheriting C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods from a base class |
| 5260 | named C<BaseClass>, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during |
| 5261 | startup. |
| 5262 | |
| 5263 | In code that currently says C<use AutoLoader; @ISA = qw(AutoLoader);> |
| 5264 | you should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C<use AutoLoader;> to |
| 5265 | C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';>. |
| 5266 | |
| 5267 | =item Use of %s in printf format not supported |
| 5268 | |
| 5269 | (F) You attempted to use a feature of printf that is accessible from |
| 5270 | only C. This usually means there's a better way to do it in Perl. |
| 5271 | |
| 5272 | =item Use of %s is deprecated |
| 5273 | |
| 5274 | (D deprecated) The construct indicated is no longer recommended for use, |
| 5275 | generally because there's a better way to do it, and also because the |
| 5276 | old way has bad side effects. |
| 5277 | |
| 5278 | =item Use of -l on filehandle %s |
| 5279 | |
| 5280 | (W io) A filehandle represents an opened file, and when you opened the file |
| 5281 | it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for. |
| 5282 | The operation returned C<undef>. Use a filename instead. |
| 5283 | |
| 5284 | =item Use of %s on a handle without * is deprecated |
| 5285 | |
| 5286 | (D deprecated) You used C<tie>, C<tied> or C<untie> on a scalar but that |
| 5287 | scalar happens to hold a typeglob, which means its filehandle will |
| 5288 | be tied. If you mean to tie a handle, use an explicit * as in |
| 5289 | C<tie *$handle>. |
| 5290 | |
| 5291 | This is a long-standing bug that will be removed in Perl 5.16, as |
| 5292 | there is currently no way to tie the scalar itself when it holds |
| 5293 | a typeglob, and no way to untie a scalar that has had a typeglob |
| 5294 | assigned to it. |
| 5295 | |
| 5296 | =item Use of ?PATTERN? without explicit operator is deprecated |
| 5297 | |
| 5298 | (D deprecated) You have written something like C<?\w?>, for a regular |
| 5299 | expression that matches only once. Starting this term directly with |
| 5300 | the question mark delimiter is now deprecated, so that the question mark |
| 5301 | will be available for use in new operators in the future. Write C<m?\w?> |
| 5302 | instead, explicitly using the C<m> operator: the question mark delimiter |
| 5303 | still invokes match-once behaviour. |
| 5304 | |
| 5305 | =item Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated |
| 5306 | |
| 5307 | (D deprecated) You have something like C<foreach $x qw(a b c) {...}>, |
| 5308 | using a C<qw(...)> list literal where a parenthesised expression is |
| 5309 | expected. Historically the parser fooled itself into thinking that |
| 5310 | C<qw(...)> literals were always enclosed in parentheses, and as a result |
| 5311 | you could sometimes omit parentheses around them. (You could never do |
| 5312 | the C<foreach qw(a b c) {...}> that you might have expected, though.) |
| 5313 | The parser no longer lies to itself in this way. Wrap the list literal |
| 5314 | in parentheses, like C<foreach $x (qw(a b c)) {...}>. |
| 5315 | |
| 5316 | =item Use of reference "%s" as array index |
| 5317 | |
| 5318 | (W misc) You tried to use a reference as an array index; this probably |
| 5319 | isn't what you mean, because references in numerical context tend |
| 5320 | to be huge numbers, and so usually indicates programmer error. |
| 5321 | |
| 5322 | If you really do mean it, explicitly numify your reference, like so: |
| 5323 | C<$array[0+$ref]>. This warning is not given for overloaded objects, |
| 5324 | however, because you can overload the numification and stringification |
| 5325 | operators and then you presumably know what you are doing. |
| 5326 | |
| 5327 | =item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated |
| 5328 | |
| 5329 | (D deprecated) The indicated bareword is a reserved word. Future |
| 5330 | versions of perl may use it as a keyword, so you're better off either |
| 5331 | explicitly quoting the word in a manner appropriate for its context of |
| 5332 | use, or using a different name altogether. The warning can be |
| 5333 | suppressed for subroutine names by either adding a C<&> prefix, or using |
| 5334 | a package qualifier, e.g. C<&our()>, or C<Foo::our()>. |
| 5335 | |
| 5336 | =item Use of tainted arguments in %s is deprecated |
| 5337 | |
| 5338 | (W taint, deprecated) You have supplied C<system()> or C<exec()> with multiple |
| 5339 | arguments and at least one of them is tainted. This used to be allowed |
| 5340 | but will become a fatal error in a future version of perl. Untaint your |
| 5341 | arguments. See L<perlsec>. |
| 5342 | |
| 5343 | =item Use of uninitialized value%s |
| 5344 | |
| 5345 | (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already |
| 5346 | defined. It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. |
| 5347 | To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. |
| 5348 | |
| 5349 | To help you figure out what was undefined, perl will try to tell you the |
| 5350 | name of the variable (if any) that was undefined. In some cases it cannot |
| 5351 | do this, so it also tells you what operation you used the undefined value |
| 5352 | in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your program and the operation |
| 5353 | displayed in the warning may not necessarily appear literally in your |
| 5354 | program. For example, C<"that $foo"> is usually optimized into C<"that " |
| 5355 | . $foo>, and the warning will refer to the C<concatenation (.)> operator, |
| 5356 | even though there is no C<.> in your program. |
| 5357 | |
| 5358 | =item Using a hash as a reference is deprecated |
| 5359 | |
| 5360 | (D deprecated) You tried to use a hash as a reference, as in |
| 5361 | C<< %foo->{"bar"} >> or C<< %$ref->{"hello"} >>. Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 |
| 5362 | used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will |
| 5363 | be removed in a future version. |
| 5364 | |
| 5365 | =item Using an array as a reference is deprecated |
| 5366 | |
| 5367 | (D deprecated) You tried to use an array as a reference, as in |
| 5368 | C<< @foo->[23] >> or C<< @$ref->[99] >>. Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 used to |
| 5369 | allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will be |
| 5370 | removed in a future version. |
| 5371 | |
| 5372 | =item Using just the first character returned by \N{} in character class |
| 5373 | |
| 5374 | (W) A charnames handler may return a sequence of more than one character. |
| 5375 | Currently all but the first one are discarded when used in a regular |
| 5376 | expression pattern bracketed character class. |
| 5377 | |
| 5378 | =item Using !~ with %s doesn't make sense |
| 5379 | |
| 5380 | (F) Using the C<!~> operator with C<s///r>, C<tr///r> or C<y///r> is |
| 5381 | currently reserved for future use, as the exact behaviour has not |
| 5382 | been decided. (Simply returning the boolean opposite of the |
| 5383 | modified string is usually not particularly useful.) |
| 5384 | |
| 5385 | =item UTF-16 surrogate U+%X |
| 5386 | |
| 5387 | (W utf8, surrogate) You had a UTF-16 surrogate in a context where they are |
| 5388 | not considered acceptable. These code points, between U+D800 and |
| 5389 | U+DFFF (inclusive), are used by Unicode only for UTF-16. However, Perl |
| 5390 | internally allows all unsigned integer code points (up to the size limit |
| 5391 | available on your platform), including surrogates. But these can cause |
| 5392 | problems when being input or output, which is likely where this message |
| 5393 | came from. If you really really know what you are doing you can turn |
| 5394 | off this warning by C<no warnings 'surrogate';>. |
| 5395 | |
| 5396 | =item Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined() |
| 5397 | |
| 5398 | (W misc) In a conditional expression, you used <HANDLE>, <*> (glob), |
| 5399 | C<each()>, or C<readdir()> as a boolean value. Each of these constructs |
| 5400 | can return a value of "0"; that would make the conditional expression |
| 5401 | false, which is probably not what you intended. When using these |
| 5402 | constructs in conditional expressions, test their values with the |
| 5403 | C<defined> operator. |
| 5404 | |
| 5405 | =item Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long |
| 5406 | |
| 5407 | (W misc) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the value of an |
| 5408 | %ENV element from a CLI symbol table, and found a resultant string |
| 5409 | longer than 1024 characters. The return value has been truncated to |
| 5410 | 1024 characters. |
| 5411 | |
| 5412 | =item Variable "%s" is not available |
| 5413 | |
| 5414 | (W closure) During compilation, an inner named subroutine or eval is |
| 5415 | attempting to capture an outer lexical that is not currently available. |
| 5416 | This can happen for one of two reasons. First, the outer lexical may be |
| 5417 | declared in an outer anonymous subroutine that has not yet been created. |
| 5418 | (Remember that named subs are created at compile time, while anonymous |
| 5419 | subs are created at run-time.) For example, |
| 5420 | |
| 5421 | sub { my $a; sub f { $a } } |
| 5422 | |
| 5423 | At the time that f is created, it can't capture the current value of $a, |
| 5424 | since the anonymous subroutine hasn't been created yet. Conversely, |
| 5425 | the following won't give a warning since the anonymous subroutine has by |
| 5426 | now been created and is live: |
| 5427 | |
| 5428 | sub { my $a; eval 'sub f { $a }' }->(); |
| 5429 | |
| 5430 | The second situation is caused by an eval accessing a variable that has |
| 5431 | gone out of scope, for example, |
| 5432 | |
| 5433 | sub f { |
| 5434 | my $a; |
| 5435 | sub { eval '$a' } |
| 5436 | } |
| 5437 | f()->(); |
| 5438 | |
| 5439 | Here, when the '$a' in the eval is being compiled, f() is not currently being |
| 5440 | executed, so its $a is not available for capture. |
| 5441 | |
| 5442 | =item Variable "%s" is not imported%s |
| 5443 | |
| 5444 | (W misc) With "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable |
| 5445 | that you apparently thought was imported from another module, because |
| 5446 | something else of the same name (usually a subroutine) is exported by |
| 5447 | that module. It usually means you put the wrong funny character on the |
| 5448 | front of your variable. |
| 5449 | |
| 5450 | =item Variable length lookbehind not implemented in m/%s/ |
| 5451 | |
| 5452 | (F) Lookbehind is allowed only for subexpressions whose length is fixed and |
| 5453 | known at compile time. See L<perlre>. |
| 5454 | |
| 5455 | =item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s |
| 5456 | |
| 5457 | (W misc) A "my", "our" or "state" variable has been redeclared in the |
| 5458 | current scope or statement, effectively eliminating all access to the |
| 5459 | previous instance. This is almost always a typographical error. Note |
| 5460 | that the earlier variable will still exist until the end of the scope |
| 5461 | or until all closure referents to it are destroyed. |
| 5462 | |
| 5463 | =item Variable syntax |
| 5464 | |
| 5465 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead |
| 5466 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into |
| 5467 | Perl yourself. |
| 5468 | |
| 5469 | =item Variable "%s" will not stay shared |
| 5470 | |
| 5471 | (W closure) An inner (nested) I<named> subroutine is referencing a |
| 5472 | lexical variable defined in an outer named subroutine. |
| 5473 | |
| 5474 | When the inner subroutine is called, it will see the value of |
| 5475 | the outer subroutine's variable as it was before and during the *first* |
| 5476 | call to the outer subroutine; in this case, after the first call to the |
| 5477 | outer subroutine is complete, the inner and outer subroutines will no |
| 5478 | longer share a common value for the variable. In other words, the |
| 5479 | variable will no longer be shared. |
| 5480 | |
| 5481 | This problem can usually be solved by making the inner subroutine |
| 5482 | anonymous, using the C<sub {}> syntax. When inner anonymous subs that |
| 5483 | reference variables in outer subroutines are created, they |
| 5484 | are automatically rebound to the current values of such variables. |
| 5485 | |
| 5486 | =item Verb pattern '%s' has a mandatory argument in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5487 | |
| 5488 | (F) You used a verb pattern that requires an argument. Supply an argument |
| 5489 | or check that you are using the right verb. |
| 5490 | |
| 5491 | =item Verb pattern '%s' may not have an argument in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 5492 | |
| 5493 | (F) You used a verb pattern that is not allowed an argument. Remove the |
| 5494 | argument or check that you are using the right verb. |
| 5495 | |
| 5496 | =item Version number must be a constant number |
| 5497 | |
| 5498 | (P) The attempt to translate a C<use Module n.n LIST> statement into |
| 5499 | its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with |
| 5500 | the version number. |
| 5501 | |
| 5502 | =item Version string '%s' contains invalid data; ignoring: '%s' |
| 5503 | |
| 5504 | (W misc) The version string contains invalid characters at the end, which |
| 5505 | are being ignored. |
| 5506 | |
| 5507 | =item Warning: something's wrong |
| 5508 | |
| 5509 | (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or |
| 5510 | you called it with no args and C<$@> was empty. |
| 5511 | |
| 5512 | =item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly |
| 5513 | |
| 5514 | (S) The implicit close() done by an open() got an error indication on |
| 5515 | the close(). This usually indicates your file system ran out of disk |
| 5516 | space. |
| 5517 | |
| 5518 | =item Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous |
| 5519 | |
| 5520 | (S ambiguous) You wrote a unary operator followed by something that |
| 5521 | looks like a binary operator that could also have been interpreted as a |
| 5522 | term or unary operator. For instance, if you know that the rand |
| 5523 | function has a default argument of 1.0, and you write |
| 5524 | |
| 5525 | rand + 5; |
| 5526 | |
| 5527 | you may THINK you wrote the same thing as |
| 5528 | |
| 5529 | rand() + 5; |
| 5530 | |
| 5531 | but in actual fact, you got |
| 5532 | |
| 5533 | rand(+5); |
| 5534 | |
| 5535 | So put in parentheses to say what you really mean. |
| 5536 | |
| 5537 | =item Wide character in %s |
| 5538 | |
| 5539 | (S utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting |
| 5540 | one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print). The easiest |
| 5541 | way to quiet this warning is simply to add the C<:utf8> layer to the |
| 5542 | output, e.g. C<binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'>. Another way to turn off the |
| 5543 | warning is to add C<no warnings 'utf8';> but that is often closer to |
| 5544 | cheating. In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the |
| 5545 | filehandle with an encoding, see L<open> and L<perlfunc/binmode>. |
| 5546 | |
| 5547 | =item Within []-length '%c' not allowed |
| 5548 | |
| 5549 | (F) The count in the (un)pack template may be replaced by C<[TEMPLATE]> only if |
| 5550 | C<TEMPLATE> always matches the same amount of packed bytes that can be |
| 5551 | determined from the template alone. This is not possible if it contains any |
| 5552 | of the codes @, /, U, u, w or a *-length. Redesign the template. |
| 5553 | |
| 5554 | =item write() on closed filehandle %s |
| 5555 | |
| 5556 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 5557 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 5558 | |
| 5559 | =item %s "\x%X" does not map to Unicode |
| 5560 | |
| 5561 | (F) When reading in different encodings Perl tries to map everything |
| 5562 | into Unicode characters. The bytes you read in are not legal in |
| 5563 | this encoding, for example |
| 5564 | |
| 5565 | utf8 "\xE4" does not map to Unicode |
| 5566 | |
| 5567 | if you try to read in the a-diaereses Latin-1 as UTF-8. |
| 5568 | |
| 5569 | =item 'X' outside of string |
| 5570 | |
| 5571 | (F) You had a (un)pack template that specified a relative position before |
| 5572 | the beginning of the string being (un)packed. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 5573 | |
| 5574 | =item 'x' outside of string in unpack |
| 5575 | |
| 5576 | (F) You had a pack template that specified a relative position after |
| 5577 | the end of the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 5578 | |
| 5579 | =item YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET! |
| 5580 | |
| 5581 | (F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the |
| 5582 | sources to your kernel, and your vendor probably doesn't give a rip |
| 5583 | about what you want. Your best bet is to put a setuid C wrapper around |
| 5584 | your script. |
| 5585 | |
| 5586 | =item You need to quote "%s" |
| 5587 | |
| 5588 | (W syntax) You assigned a bareword as a signal handler name. |
| 5589 | Unfortunately, you already have a subroutine of that name declared, |
| 5590 | which means that Perl 5 will try to call the subroutine when the |
| 5591 | assignment is executed, which is probably not what you want. (If it IS |
| 5592 | what you want, put an & in front.) |
| 5593 | |
| 5594 | =item Your random numbers are not that random |
| 5595 | |
| 5596 | (F) When trying to initialise the random seed for hashes, Perl could |
| 5597 | not get any randomness out of your system. This usually indicates |
| 5598 | Something Very Wrong. |
| 5599 | |
| 5600 | =back |
| 5601 | |
| 5602 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
| 5603 | |
| 5604 | L<warnings>, L<perllexwarn>, L<diagnostics>. |
| 5605 | |
| 5606 | =cut |