| 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 (optional). |
| 12 | (S) A severe warning (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 | Default 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: %lx |
| 54 | |
| 55 | (X) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | =item '!' allowed only after types %s |
| 58 | |
| 59 | (F) The '!' is allowed in pack() and unpack() only after certain types. |
| 60 | 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 '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line |
| 93 | |
| 94 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 95 | redirection, and found that STDIN was a pipe, and that you also tried to |
| 96 | redirect STDIN using '<'. Only one STDIN stream to a customer, please. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | =item '|' and '>' may not both be specified on command line |
| 99 | |
| 100 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 101 | redirection, and thinks you tried to redirect stdout both to a file and |
| 102 | into a pipe to another command. You need to choose one or the other, |
| 103 | though nothing's stopping you from piping into a program or Perl script |
| 104 | which 'splits' output into two streams, such as |
| 105 | |
| 106 | open(OUT,">$ARGV[0]") or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]: $!"; |
| 107 | while (<STDIN>) { |
| 108 | print; |
| 109 | print OUT; |
| 110 | } |
| 111 | close OUT; |
| 112 | |
| 113 | =item Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s) |
| 114 | |
| 115 | (W misc) The pattern match (C<//>), substitution (C<s///>), and |
| 116 | transliteration (C<tr///>) operators work on scalar values. If you apply |
| 117 | one of them to an array or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to |
| 118 | a scalar value -- the length of an array, or the population info of a |
| 119 | hash -- and then work on that scalar value. This is probably not what |
| 120 | you meant to do. See L<perlfunc/grep> and L<perlfunc/map> for |
| 121 | alternatives. |
| 122 | |
| 123 | =item Args must match #! line |
| 124 | |
| 125 | (F) The setuid emulator requires that the arguments Perl was invoked |
| 126 | with match the arguments specified on the #! line. Since some systems |
| 127 | impose a one-argument limit on the #! line, try combining switches; |
| 128 | for example, turn C<-w -U> into C<-wU>. |
| 129 | |
| 130 | =item Arg too short for msgsnd |
| 131 | |
| 132 | (F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long). |
| 133 | |
| 134 | =item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element |
| 135 | |
| 136 | (F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element, such as: |
| 137 | |
| 138 | $foo{$bar} |
| 139 | $ref->{"susie"}[12] |
| 140 | |
| 141 | =item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice |
| 142 | |
| 143 | (F) The argument to delete() must be either a hash or array element, |
| 144 | such as: |
| 145 | |
| 146 | $foo{$bar} |
| 147 | $ref->{"susie"}[12] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | or a hash or array slice, such as: |
| 150 | |
| 151 | @foo[$bar, $baz, $xyzzy] |
| 152 | @{$ref->[12]}{"susie", "queue"} |
| 153 | |
| 154 | =item %s argument is not a subroutine name |
| 155 | |
| 156 | (F) The argument to exists() for C<exists &sub> must be a subroutine |
| 157 | name, and not a subroutine call. C<exists &sub()> will generate this |
| 158 | error. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | =item Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s |
| 161 | |
| 162 | (W numeric) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an operator |
| 163 | that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the message |
| 164 | will identify which operator was so unfortunate. |
| 165 | |
| 166 | =item Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s() |
| 167 | |
| 168 | (D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the @ on array names in some |
| 169 | spots. This is now heavily deprecated. |
| 170 | |
| 171 | =item assertion botched: %s |
| 172 | |
| 173 | (P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure. |
| 174 | |
| 175 | =item Assertion failed: file "%s" |
| 176 | |
| 177 | (P) A general assertion failed. The file in question must be examined. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | =item Assignment to both a list and a scalar |
| 180 | |
| 181 | (F) If you assign to a conditional operator, the 2nd and 3rd arguments |
| 182 | must either both be scalars or both be lists. Otherwise Perl won't |
| 183 | know which context to supply to the right side. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | =item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context |
| 186 | |
| 187 | (F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be |
| 188 | greater than or equal to zero. |
| 189 | |
| 190 | =item Attempt to bless into a reference |
| 191 | |
| 192 | (F) The CLASSNAME argument to the bless() operator is expected to be |
| 193 | the name of the package to bless the resulting object into. You've |
| 194 | supplied instead a reference to something: perhaps you wrote |
| 195 | |
| 196 | bless $self, $proto; |
| 197 | |
| 198 | when you intended |
| 199 | |
| 200 | bless $self, ref($proto) || $proto; |
| 201 | |
| 202 | If you actually want to bless into the stringified version |
| 203 | of the reference supplied, you need to stringify it yourself, for |
| 204 | example by: |
| 205 | |
| 206 | bless $self, "$proto"; |
| 207 | |
| 208 | =item Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx |
| 209 | |
| 210 | (P internal) All SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas |
| 211 | that will be garbage collected on exit. An SV was discovered to be |
| 212 | outside any of those arenas. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | =item Attempt to free nonexistent shared string |
| 215 | |
| 216 | (P internal) Perl maintains a reference counted internal table of |
| 217 | strings to optimize the storage and access of hash keys and other |
| 218 | strings. This indicates someone tried to decrement the reference count |
| 219 | of a string that can no longer be found in the table. |
| 220 | |
| 221 | =item Attempt to free temp prematurely |
| 222 | |
| 223 | (W debugging) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the |
| 224 | free_tmps() routine. This indicates that something else is freeing the |
| 225 | SV before the free_tmps() routine gets a chance, which means that the |
| 226 | free_tmps() routine will be freeing an unreferenced scalar when it does |
| 227 | try to free it. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | =item Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers |
| 230 | |
| 231 | (P internal) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol aliases. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | =item Attempt to free unreferenced scalar |
| 234 | |
| 235 | (W internal) Perl went to decrement the reference count of a scalar to |
| 236 | see if it would go to 0, and discovered that it had already gone to 0 |
| 237 | earlier, and should have been freed, and in fact, probably was freed. |
| 238 | This could indicate that SvREFCNT_dec() was called too many times, or |
| 239 | that SvREFCNT_inc() was called too few times, or that the SV was |
| 240 | mortalized when it shouldn't have been, or that memory has been |
| 241 | corrupted. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | =item Attempt to join self |
| 244 | |
| 245 | (F) You tried to join a thread from within itself, which is an |
| 246 | impossible task. You may be joining the wrong thread, or you may need |
| 247 | to move the join() to some other thread. |
| 248 | |
| 249 | =item Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value |
| 250 | |
| 251 | (W pack) You tried to pass a temporary value (like the result of a |
| 252 | function, or a computed expression) to the "p" pack() template. This |
| 253 | means the result contains a pointer to a location that could become |
| 254 | invalid anytime, even before the end of the current statement. Use |
| 255 | literals or global values as arguments to the "p" pack() template to |
| 256 | avoid this warning. |
| 257 | |
| 258 | =item Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr |
| 259 | |
| 260 | (W substr) You supplied a reference as the first argument to substr() |
| 261 | used as an lvalue, which is pretty strange. Perhaps you forgot to |
| 262 | dereference it first. See L<perlfunc/substr>. |
| 263 | |
| 264 | =item Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %s |
| 265 | |
| 266 | (F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl(), semctl() |
| 267 | or shmctl(). In C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively, |
| 268 | S<sizeof(struct msqid_ds *)>, S<sizeof(struct semid_ds *)>, and |
| 269 | S<sizeof(struct shmid_ds *)>. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | =item Bad evalled substitution pattern |
| 272 | |
| 273 | (F) You've used the C</e> switch to evaluate the replacement for a |
| 274 | substitution, but perl found a syntax error in the code to evaluate, |
| 275 | most likely an unexpected right brace '}'. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | =item Bad filehandle: %s |
| 278 | |
| 279 | (F) A symbol was passed to something wanting a filehandle, but the |
| 280 | symbol has no filehandle associated with it. Perhaps you didn't do an |
| 281 | open(), or did it in another package. |
| 282 | |
| 283 | =item Bad free() ignored |
| 284 | |
| 285 | (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never |
| 286 | been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by |
| 287 | setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 0. |
| 288 | |
| 289 | This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard" |
| 290 | dynamic linking, like C<AIX> and C<OS/2>. It is a bug of C<Berkeley DB> |
| 291 | which is left unnoticed if C<DB> uses I<forgiving> system malloc(). |
| 292 | |
| 293 | =item Bad hash |
| 294 | |
| 295 | (P) One of the internal hash routines was passed a null HV pointer. |
| 296 | |
| 297 | =item Bad index while coercing array into hash |
| 298 | |
| 299 | (F) The index looked up in the hash found as the 0'th element of a |
| 300 | pseudo-hash is not legal. Index values must be at 1 or greater. |
| 301 | See L<perlref>. |
| 302 | |
| 303 | =item Badly placed ()'s |
| 304 | |
| 305 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead |
| 306 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into |
| 307 | Perl yourself. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | =item Bad name after %s:: |
| 310 | |
| 311 | (F) You started to name a symbol by using a package prefix, and then |
| 312 | didn't finish the symbol. In particular, you can't interpolate outside |
| 313 | of quotes, so |
| 314 | |
| 315 | $var = 'myvar'; |
| 316 | $sym = mypack::$var; |
| 317 | |
| 318 | is not the same as |
| 319 | |
| 320 | $var = 'myvar'; |
| 321 | $sym = "mypack::$var"; |
| 322 | |
| 323 | =item Bad realloc() ignored |
| 324 | |
| 325 | (S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had |
| 326 | never been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled |
| 327 | by setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 1. |
| 328 | |
| 329 | =item Bad symbol for array |
| 330 | |
| 331 | (P) An internal request asked to add an array entry to something that |
| 332 | wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 333 | |
| 334 | =item Bad symbol for filehandle |
| 335 | |
| 336 | (P) An internal request asked to add a filehandle entry to something |
| 337 | that wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | =item Bad symbol for hash |
| 340 | |
| 341 | (P) An internal request asked to add a hash entry to something that |
| 342 | wasn't a symbol table entry. |
| 343 | |
| 344 | =item Bareword found in conditional |
| 345 | |
| 346 | (W bareword) The compiler found a bareword where it expected a |
| 347 | conditional, which often indicates that an || or && was parsed as part |
| 348 | of the last argument of the previous construct, for example: |
| 349 | |
| 350 | open FOO || die; |
| 351 | |
| 352 | It may also indicate a misspelled constant that has been interpreted as |
| 353 | a bareword: |
| 354 | |
| 355 | use constant TYPO => 1; |
| 356 | if (TYOP) { print "foo" } |
| 357 | |
| 358 | The C<strict> pragma is useful in avoiding such errors. |
| 359 | |
| 360 | =item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use |
| 361 | |
| 362 | (F) With "strict subs" in use, a bareword is only allowed as a |
| 363 | subroutine identifier, in curly brackets or to the left of the "=>" |
| 364 | symbol. Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine? |
| 365 | |
| 366 | =item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package |
| 367 | |
| 368 | (W bareword) You used a qualified bareword of the form C<Foo::>, but the |
| 369 | compiler saw no other uses of that namespace before that point. Perhaps |
| 370 | you need to predeclare a package? |
| 371 | |
| 372 | =item BEGIN failed--compilation aborted |
| 373 | |
| 374 | (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a BEGIN |
| 375 | subroutine. Compilation stops immediately and the interpreter is |
| 376 | exited. |
| 377 | |
| 378 | =item BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted |
| 379 | |
| 380 | (F) Perl found a C<BEGIN {}> subroutine (or a C<use> directive, which |
| 381 | implies a C<BEGIN {}>) after one or more compilation errors had already |
| 382 | occurred. Since the intended environment for the C<BEGIN {}> could not |
| 383 | be guaranteed (due to the errors), and since subsequent code likely |
| 384 | depends on its correct operation, Perl just gave up. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | =item \1 better written as $1 |
| 387 | |
| 388 | (W syntax) Outside of patterns, backreferences live on as variables. |
| 389 | The use of backslashes is grandfathered on the right-hand side of a |
| 390 | substitution, but stylistically it's better to use the variable form |
| 391 | because other Perl programmers will expect it, and it works better if |
| 392 | there are more than 9 backreferences. |
| 393 | |
| 394 | =item Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable |
| 395 | |
| 396 | (W portable) The binary number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 397 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 398 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 399 | |
| 400 | =item bind() on closed socket %s |
| 401 | |
| 402 | (W closed) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket. Did you forget to |
| 403 | check the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/bind>. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | =item binmode() on closed filehandle %s |
| 406 | |
| 407 | (W unopened) You tried binmode() on a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 408 | Check you control flow and number of arguments. |
| 409 | |
| 410 | =item Bit vector size > 32 non-portable |
| 411 | |
| 412 | (W portable) Using bit vector sizes larger than 32 is non-portable. |
| 413 | |
| 414 | =item Bizarre copy of %s in %s |
| 415 | |
| 416 | (P) Perl detected an attempt to copy an internal value that is not |
| 417 | copyable. |
| 418 | |
| 419 | =item B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script |
| 420 | |
| 421 | (F) The script would have to be opened by the C preprocessor by name, |
| 422 | which provides a race condition that breaks security. |
| 423 | |
| 424 | =item Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s |
| 425 | |
| 426 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. While Perl was preparing to |
| 427 | iterate over %ENV, it encountered a logical name or symbol definition |
| 428 | which was too long, so it was truncated to the string shown. |
| 429 | |
| 430 | =item Callback called exit |
| 431 | |
| 432 | (F) A subroutine invoked from an external package via call_sv() |
| 433 | exited by calling exit. |
| 434 | |
| 435 | =item %s() called too early to check prototype |
| 436 | |
| 437 | (W prototype) You've called a function that has a prototype before the |
| 438 | parser saw a definition or declaration for it, and Perl could not check |
| 439 | that the call conforms to the prototype. You need to either add an |
| 440 | early prototype declaration for the subroutine in question, or move the |
| 441 | subroutine definition ahead of the call to get proper prototype |
| 442 | checking. Alternatively, if you are certain that you're calling the |
| 443 | function correctly, you may put an ampersand before the name to avoid |
| 444 | the warning. See L<perlsub>. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | =item / cannot take a count |
| 447 | |
| 448 | (F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string, but |
| 449 | you have also specified an explicit size for the string. See |
| 450 | L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 451 | |
| 452 | =item Can't bless non-reference value |
| 453 | |
| 454 | (F) Only hard references may be blessed. This is how Perl "enforces" |
| 455 | encapsulation of objects. See L<perlobj>. |
| 456 | |
| 457 | =item Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s" |
| 458 | |
| 459 | (F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package |
| 460 | functioning as a class, but that package doesn't have ANYTHING defined |
| 461 | in it, let alone methods. See L<perlobj>. |
| 462 | |
| 463 | =item Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value |
| 464 | |
| 465 | (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the |
| 466 | object reference or package name contains an undefined value. Something |
| 467 | like this will reproduce the error: |
| 468 | |
| 469 | $BADREF = undef; |
| 470 | process $BADREF 1,2,3; |
| 471 | $BADREF->process(1,2,3); |
| 472 | |
| 473 | =item Can't call method "%s" on unblessed reference |
| 474 | |
| 475 | (F) A method call must know in what package it's supposed to run. It |
| 476 | ordinarily finds this out from the object reference you supply, but you |
| 477 | didn't supply an object reference in this case. A reference isn't an |
| 478 | object reference until it has been blessed. See L<perlobj>. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | =item Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference |
| 481 | |
| 482 | (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the |
| 483 | object reference or package name contains an expression that returns a |
| 484 | defined value which is neither an object reference nor a package name. |
| 485 | Something like this will reproduce the error: |
| 486 | |
| 487 | $BADREF = 42; |
| 488 | process $BADREF 1,2,3; |
| 489 | $BADREF->process(1,2,3); |
| 490 | |
| 491 | =item Can't chdir to %s |
| 492 | |
| 493 | (F) You called C<perl -x/foo/bar>, but C</foo/bar> is not a directory |
| 494 | that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist. |
| 495 | |
| 496 | =item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid |
| 497 | |
| 498 | (P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for |
| 499 | nosuid. |
| 500 | |
| 501 | =item Can't coerce array into hash |
| 502 | |
| 503 | (F) You used an array where a hash was expected, but the array has no |
| 504 | information on how to map from keys to array indices. You can do that |
| 505 | only with arrays that have a hash reference at index 0. |
| 506 | |
| 507 | =item Can't coerce %s to integer in %s |
| 508 | |
| 509 | (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries |
| 510 | (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. So you can't |
| 511 | say things like: |
| 512 | |
| 513 | *foo += 1; |
| 514 | |
| 515 | You CAN say |
| 516 | |
| 517 | $foo = *foo; |
| 518 | $foo += 1; |
| 519 | |
| 520 | but then $foo no longer contains a glob. |
| 521 | |
| 522 | =item Can't coerce %s to number in %s |
| 523 | |
| 524 | (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries |
| 525 | (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. |
| 526 | |
| 527 | =item Can't coerce %s to string in %s |
| 528 | |
| 529 | (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries |
| 530 | (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. |
| 531 | |
| 532 | =item Can't create pipe mailbox |
| 533 | |
| 534 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The process is suffering from exhausted |
| 535 | quotas or other plumbing problems. |
| 536 | |
| 537 | =item Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s" |
| 538 | |
| 539 | (S) Currently, only scalar variables can declared with a specific class |
| 540 | qualifier in a "my" or "our" declaration. The semantics may be extended |
| 541 | for other types of variables in future. |
| 542 | |
| 543 | =item Can't declare %s in "%s" |
| 544 | |
| 545 | (F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be declared as "my" or |
| 546 | "our" variables. They must have ordinary identifiers as names. |
| 547 | |
| 548 | =item Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file |
| 549 | |
| 550 | (S inplace) You tried to use the B<-i> switch on a special file, such as |
| 551 | a file in /dev, or a FIFO. The file was ignored. |
| 552 | |
| 553 | =item Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s |
| 554 | |
| 555 | (S inplace) The creation of the new file failed for the indicated |
| 556 | reason. |
| 557 | |
| 558 | =item Can't do inplace edit without backup |
| 559 | |
| 560 | (F) You're on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if you try |
| 561 | reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say |
| 562 | C<-i.bak>, or some such. |
| 563 | |
| 564 | =item Can't do inplace edit: %s would not be unique |
| 565 | |
| 566 | (S inplace) Your filesystem does not support filenames longer than 14 |
| 567 | characters and Perl was unable to create a unique filename during |
| 568 | inplace editing with the B<-i> switch. The file was ignored. |
| 569 | |
| 570 | =item Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 571 | |
| 572 | (F) Minima must be less than or equal to maxima. If you really want your |
| 573 | regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}. The <-- HERE shows in the |
| 574 | regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 575 | |
| 576 | =item Can't do setegid! |
| 577 | |
| 578 | (P) The setegid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of |
| 579 | suidperl. |
| 580 | |
| 581 | =item Can't do seteuid! |
| 582 | |
| 583 | (P) The setuid emulator of suidperl failed for some reason. |
| 584 | |
| 585 | =item Can't do setuid |
| 586 | |
| 587 | (F) This typically means that ordinary perl tried to exec suidperl to do |
| 588 | setuid emulation, but couldn't exec it. It looks for a name of the form |
| 589 | sperl5.000 in the same directory that the perl executable resides under |
| 590 | the name perl5.000, typically /usr/local/bin on Unix machines. If the |
| 591 | file is there, check the execute permissions. If it isn't, ask your |
| 592 | sysadmin why he and/or she removed it. |
| 593 | |
| 594 | =item Can't do waitpid with flags |
| 595 | |
| 596 | (F) This machine doesn't have either waitpid() or wait4(), so only |
| 597 | waitpid() without flags is emulated. |
| 598 | |
| 599 | =item Can't emulate -%s on #! line |
| 600 | |
| 601 | (F) The #! line specifies a switch that doesn't make sense at this |
| 602 | point. For example, it'd be kind of silly to put a B<-x> on the #! |
| 603 | line. |
| 604 | |
| 605 | =item Can't exec "%s": %s |
| 606 | |
| 607 | (W exec) An system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the |
| 608 | named program for the indicated reason. Typical reasons include: the |
| 609 | permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in |
| 610 | C<$ENV{PATH}>, the executable in question was compiled for another |
| 611 | architecture, or the #! line in a script points to an interpreter that |
| 612 | can't be run for similar reasons. (Or maybe your system doesn't support |
| 613 | #! at all.) |
| 614 | |
| 615 | =item Can't exec %s |
| 616 | |
| 617 | (F) Perl was trying to execute the indicated program for you because |
| 618 | that's what the #! line said. If that's not what you wanted, you may |
| 619 | need to mention "perl" on the #! line somewhere. |
| 620 | |
| 621 | =item Can't execute %s |
| 622 | |
| 623 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the copies of the script to execute |
| 624 | found in the PATH did not have correct permissions. |
| 625 | |
| 626 | =item Can't find an opnumber for "%s" |
| 627 | |
| 628 | (F) A string of a form C<CORE::word> was given to prototype(), but there |
| 629 | is no builtin with the name C<word>. |
| 630 | |
| 631 | =item Can't find %s character property "%s" |
| 632 | |
| 633 | (F) You used C<\p{}> or C<\P{}> but the character property by that name |
| 634 | could not be found. Maybe you misspelled the name of the property |
| 635 | (remember that the names of character properties consist only of |
| 636 | alphanumeric characters), or maybe you forgot the C<Is> or C<In> prefix? |
| 637 | |
| 638 | =item Can't find label %s |
| 639 | |
| 640 | (F) You said to goto a label that isn't mentioned anywhere that it's |
| 641 | possible for us to go to. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 642 | |
| 643 | =item Can't find %s on PATH |
| 644 | |
| 645 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be |
| 646 | found in the PATH. |
| 647 | |
| 648 | =item Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH |
| 649 | |
| 650 | (F) You used the B<-S> switch, but the script to execute could not be |
| 651 | found in the PATH, or at least not with the correct permissions. The |
| 652 | script exists in the current directory, but PATH prohibits running it. |
| 653 | |
| 654 | =item Can't find string terminator %s anywhere before EOF |
| 655 | |
| 656 | (F) Perl strings can stretch over multiple lines. This message means |
| 657 | that the closing delimiter was omitted. Because bracketed quotes count |
| 658 | nesting levels, the following is missing its final parenthesis: |
| 659 | |
| 660 | print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.); |
| 661 | |
| 662 | If you're getting this error from a here-document, you may have included |
| 663 | unseen whitespace before or after your closing tag. A good programmer's |
| 664 | editor will have a way to help you find these characters. |
| 665 | |
| 666 | =item Can't find %s property definition %s |
| 667 | |
| 668 | (F) You may have tried to use C<\p> which means a Unicode property for |
| 669 | example \p{Lu} is all uppercase letters. Escape the C<\p>, either |
| 670 | C<\\p> (just the C<\p>) or by C<\Q\p> (the rest of the string, until |
| 671 | possible C<\E>). |
| 672 | |
| 673 | =item Can't fork |
| 674 | |
| 675 | (F) A fatal error occurred while trying to fork while opening a |
| 676 | pipeline. |
| 677 | |
| 678 | =item Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer? |
| 679 | |
| 680 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. This arises because of the difference |
| 681 | between access checks under VMS and under the Unix model Perl assumes. |
| 682 | Under VMS, access checks are done by filename, rather than by bits in |
| 683 | the stat buffer, so that ACLs and other protections can be taken into |
| 684 | account. Unfortunately, Perl assumes that the stat buffer contains all |
| 685 | the necessary information, and passes it, instead of the filespec, to |
| 686 | the access checking routine. It will try to retrieve the filespec using |
| 687 | the device name and FID present in the stat buffer, but this works only |
| 688 | if you haven't made a subsequent call to the CRTL stat() routine, |
| 689 | because the device name is overwritten with each call. If this warning |
| 690 | appears, the name lookup failed, and the access checking routine gave up |
| 691 | and returned FALSE, just to be conservative. (Note: The access checking |
| 692 | routine knows about the Perl C<stat> operator and file tests, so you |
| 693 | shouldn't ever see this warning in response to a Perl command; it arises |
| 694 | only if some internal code takes stat buffers lightly.) |
| 695 | |
| 696 | =item Can't get pipe mailbox device name |
| 697 | |
| 698 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. After creating a mailbox to act as a |
| 699 | pipe, Perl can't retrieve its name for later use. |
| 700 | |
| 701 | =item Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF |
| 702 | |
| 703 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl asked $GETSYI how big you want your |
| 704 | mailbox buffers to be, and didn't get an answer. |
| 705 | |
| 706 | =item Can't "goto" into the middle of a foreach loop |
| 707 | |
| 708 | (F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump into the middle of a foreach |
| 709 | loop. You can't get there from here. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 710 | |
| 711 | =item Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block |
| 712 | |
| 713 | (F) A "goto" statement was executed to jump out of what might look like |
| 714 | a block, except that it isn't a proper block. This usually occurs if |
| 715 | you tried to jump out of a sort() block or subroutine, which is a no-no. |
| 716 | See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 717 | |
| 718 | =item Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string |
| 719 | |
| 720 | (F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval |
| 721 | "string". (You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you |
| 722 | probably don't want to.) |
| 723 | |
| 724 | =item Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine |
| 725 | |
| 726 | (F) The deeply magical "goto subroutine" call can only replace one |
| 727 | subroutine call for another. It can't manufacture one out of whole |
| 728 | cloth. In general you should be calling it out of only an AUTOLOAD |
| 729 | routine anyway. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 730 | |
| 731 | =item Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default |
| 732 | |
| 733 | (W signal) Perl has detected that it is being run with the SIGCHLD |
| 734 | signal (sometimes known as SIGCLD) disabled. Since disabling this |
| 735 | signal will interfere with proper determination of exit status of child |
| 736 | processes, Perl has reset the signal to its default value. This |
| 737 | situation typically indicates that the parent program under which Perl |
| 738 | may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless. |
| 739 | |
| 740 | =item Can't "last" outside a loop block |
| 741 | |
| 742 | (F) A "last" statement was executed to break out of the current block, |
| 743 | except that there's this itty bitty problem called there isn't a current |
| 744 | block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't count as a "loopish" |
| 745 | block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or grep(). You can |
| 746 | usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the |
| 747 | inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See |
| 748 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 749 | |
| 750 | =item Can't localize lexical variable %s |
| 751 | |
| 752 | (F) You used local on a variable name that was previously declared as a |
| 753 | lexical variable using "my". This is not allowed. If you want to |
| 754 | localize a package variable of the same name, qualify it with the |
| 755 | package name. |
| 756 | |
| 757 | =item Can't localize pseudo-hash element |
| 758 | |
| 759 | (F) You said something like C<< local $ar->{'key'} >>, where $ar is a |
| 760 | reference to a pseudo-hash. That hasn't been implemented yet, but you |
| 761 | can get a similar effect by localizing the corresponding array element |
| 762 | directly -- C<< local $ar->[$ar->[0]{'key'}] >>. |
| 763 | |
| 764 | =item Can't localize through a reference |
| 765 | |
| 766 | (F) You said something like C<local $$ref>, which Perl can't currently |
| 767 | handle, because when it goes to restore the old value of whatever $ref |
| 768 | pointed to after the scope of the local() is finished, it can't be sure |
| 769 | that $ref will still be a reference. |
| 770 | |
| 771 | =item Can't locate %s |
| 772 | |
| 773 | (F) You said to C<do> (or C<require>, or C<use>) a file that couldn't be |
| 774 | found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC, |
| 775 | unless the file name included the full path to the file. Perhaps you |
| 776 | need to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where |
| 777 | the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name |
| 778 | to @INC. Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file. See |
| 779 | L<perlfunc/require> and L<lib>. |
| 780 | |
| 781 | =item Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC |
| 782 | |
| 783 | (F) A function (or method) was called in a package which allows |
| 784 | autoload, but there is no function to autoload. Most probable causes |
| 785 | are a misprint in a function/method name or a failure to C<AutoSplit> |
| 786 | the file, say, by doing C<make install>. |
| 787 | |
| 788 | =item Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s" |
| 789 | |
| 790 | (F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package |
| 791 | functioning as a class, but that package doesn't define that particular |
| 792 | method, nor does any of its base classes. See L<perlobj>. |
| 793 | |
| 794 | =item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?) |
| 795 | |
| 796 | (F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message |
| 797 | "Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"". It often means |
| 798 | that a method requires a package that has not been loaded. |
| 799 | |
| 800 | =item Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA |
| 801 | |
| 802 | (W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that |
| 803 | doesn't seem to exist. |
| 804 | |
| 805 | =item Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system |
| 806 | |
| 807 | (F) List assignment to %ENV is not supported on some systems, notably |
| 808 | VMS. |
| 809 | |
| 810 | =item Can't modify %s in %s |
| 811 | |
| 812 | (F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try |
| 813 | to change it, such as with an auto-increment. |
| 814 | |
| 815 | =item Can't modify nonexistent substring |
| 816 | |
| 817 | (P) The internal routine that does assignment to a substr() was handed |
| 818 | a NULL. |
| 819 | |
| 820 | =item Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call |
| 821 | |
| 822 | (F) Subroutines meant to be used in lvalue context should be declared as |
| 823 | such, see L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | =item Can't msgrcv to read-only var |
| 826 | |
| 827 | (F) The target of a msgrcv must be modifiable to be used as a receive |
| 828 | buffer. |
| 829 | |
| 830 | =item Can't "next" outside a loop block |
| 831 | |
| 832 | (F) A "next" statement was executed to reiterate the current block, but |
| 833 | there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't |
| 834 | count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() or |
| 835 | grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect |
| 836 | though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops |
| 837 | once. See L<perlfunc/next>. |
| 838 | |
| 839 | =item Can't open %s: %s |
| 840 | |
| 841 | (S inplace) The implicit opening of a file through use of the C<< <> >> |
| 842 | filehandle, either implicitly under the C<-n> or C<-p> command-line |
| 843 | switches, or explicitly, failed for the indicated reason. Usually this |
| 844 | is because you don't have read permission for a file which you named on |
| 845 | the command line. |
| 846 | |
| 847 | =item Can't open bidirectional pipe |
| 848 | |
| 849 | (W pipe) You tried to say C<open(CMD, "|cmd|")>, which is not supported. |
| 850 | You can try any of several modules in the Perl library to do this, such |
| 851 | as IPC::Open2. Alternately, direct the pipe's output to a file using |
| 852 | ">", and then read it in under a different file handle. |
| 853 | |
| 854 | =item Can't open error file %s as stderr |
| 855 | |
| 856 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 857 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '2>' or '2>>' on |
| 858 | the command line for writing. |
| 859 | |
| 860 | =item Can't open input file %s as stdin |
| 861 | |
| 862 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 863 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '<' on the |
| 864 | command line for reading. |
| 865 | |
| 866 | =item Can't open output file %s as stdout |
| 867 | |
| 868 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 869 | redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '>' or '>>' on |
| 870 | the command line for writing. |
| 871 | |
| 872 | =item Can't open output pipe (name: %s) |
| 873 | |
| 874 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl does its own command line |
| 875 | redirection, and couldn't open the pipe into which to send data destined |
| 876 | for stdout. |
| 877 | |
| 878 | =item Can't open perl script%s: %s |
| 879 | |
| 880 | (F) The script you specified can't be opened for the indicated reason. |
| 881 | |
| 882 | =item Can't read CRTL environ |
| 883 | |
| 884 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read an element of %ENV |
| 885 | from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was |
| 886 | missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ |
| 887 | or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not |
| 888 | searched. |
| 889 | |
| 890 | =item Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s |
| 891 | |
| 892 | (F) Perl optimizes the internal handling of sort subroutines and keeps |
| 893 | pointers into them. You tried to redefine one such sort subroutine when |
| 894 | it was currently active, which is not allowed. If you really want to do |
| 895 | this, you should write C<sort { &func } @x> instead of C<sort func @x>. |
| 896 | |
| 897 | =item Can't "redo" outside a loop block |
| 898 | |
| 899 | (F) A "redo" statement was executed to restart the current block, but |
| 900 | there isn't a current block. Note that an "if" or "else" block doesn't |
| 901 | count as a "loopish" block, as doesn't a block given to sort(), map() |
| 902 | or grep(). You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect |
| 903 | though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that |
| 904 | loops once. See L<perlfunc/redo>. |
| 905 | |
| 906 | =item Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file |
| 907 | |
| 908 | (S inplace) You requested an inplace edit without creating a backup |
| 909 | file. Perl was unable to remove the original file to replace it with |
| 910 | the modified file. The file was left unmodified. |
| 911 | |
| 912 | =item Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file |
| 913 | |
| 914 | (S inplace) The rename done by the B<-i> switch failed for some reason, |
| 915 | probably because you don't have write permission to the directory. |
| 916 | |
| 917 | =item Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in binary mode |
| 918 | |
| 919 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl thought stdin was a pipe, and tried |
| 920 | to reopen it to accept binary data. Alas, it failed. |
| 921 | |
| 922 | =item Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' |
| 923 | |
| 924 | (F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as opposed |
| 925 | to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the package. If |
| 926 | method name is C<???>, this is an internal error. |
| 927 | |
| 928 | =item Can't reswap uid and euid |
| 929 | |
| 930 | (P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of |
| 931 | suidperl. |
| 932 | |
| 933 | =item Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine |
| 934 | |
| 935 | (F) Perl detected an attempt to return illegal lvalues (such as |
| 936 | temporary or readonly values) from a subroutine used as an lvalue. This |
| 937 | is not allowed. |
| 938 | |
| 939 | =item Can't return %s to lvalue scalar context |
| 940 | |
| 941 | (F) You tried to return a complete array or hash from an lvalue subroutine, |
| 942 | but you called the subroutine in a way that made Perl think you meant |
| 943 | to return only one value. You probably meant to write parentheses around |
| 944 | the call to the subroutine, which tell Perl that the call should be in |
| 945 | list context. |
| 946 | |
| 947 | =item Can't return outside a subroutine |
| 948 | |
| 949 | (F) The return statement was executed in mainline code, that is, where |
| 950 | there was no subroutine call to return out of. See L<perlsub>. |
| 951 | |
| 952 | =item Can't stat script "%s" |
| 953 | |
| 954 | (P) For some reason you can't fstat() the script even though you have it |
| 955 | open already. Bizarre. |
| 956 | |
| 957 | =item Can't swap uid and euid |
| 958 | |
| 959 | (P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of |
| 960 | suidperl. |
| 961 | |
| 962 | =item Can't take log of %g |
| 963 | |
| 964 | (F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the logarithm of a |
| 965 | negative number or zero. There's a Math::Complex package that comes |
| 966 | standard with Perl, though, if you really want to do that for the |
| 967 | negative numbers. |
| 968 | |
| 969 | =item Can't take sqrt of %g |
| 970 | |
| 971 | (F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the square root of a |
| 972 | negative number. There's a Math::Complex package that comes standard |
| 973 | with Perl, though, if you really want to do that. |
| 974 | |
| 975 | =item Can't undef active subroutine |
| 976 | |
| 977 | (F) You can't undefine a routine that's currently running. You can, |
| 978 | however, redefine it while it's running, and you can even undef the |
| 979 | redefined subroutine while the old routine is running. Go figure. |
| 980 | |
| 981 | =item Can't unshift |
| 982 | |
| 983 | (F) You tried to unshift an "unreal" array that can't be unshifted, such |
| 984 | as the main Perl stack. |
| 985 | |
| 986 | =item Can't upgrade that kind of scalar |
| 987 | |
| 988 | (P) The internal sv_upgrade routine adds "members" to an SV, making it |
| 989 | into a more specialized kind of SV. The top several SV types are so |
| 990 | specialized, however, that they cannot be interconverted. This message |
| 991 | indicates that such a conversion was attempted. |
| 992 | |
| 993 | =item Can't upgrade to undef |
| 994 | |
| 995 | (P) The undefined SV is the bottom of the totem pole, in the scheme of |
| 996 | upgradability. Upgrading to undef indicates an error in the code |
| 997 | calling sv_upgrade. |
| 998 | |
| 999 | =item Can't use an undefined value as %s reference |
| 1000 | |
| 1001 | (F) A value used as either a hard reference or a symbolic reference must |
| 1002 | be a defined value. This helps to delurk some insidious errors. |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 | =item Can't use anonymous symbol table for method lookup |
| 1005 | |
| 1006 | (P) The internal routine that does method lookup was handed a symbol |
| 1007 | table that doesn't have a name. Symbol tables can become anonymous |
| 1008 | for example by undefining stashes: C<undef %Some::Package::>. |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 | =item Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use |
| 1011 | |
| 1012 | (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic |
| 1013 | references are disallowed. See L<perlref>. |
| 1014 | |
| 1015 | =item Can't use %! because Errno.pm is not available |
| 1016 | |
| 1017 | (F) The first time the %! hash is used, perl automatically loads the |
| 1018 | Errno.pm module. The Errno module is expected to tie the %! hash to |
| 1019 | provide symbolic names for C<$!> errno values. |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 | =item Can't use %s for loop variable |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | (F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a |
| 1024 | foreach. |
| 1025 | |
| 1026 | =item Can't use global %s in "my" |
| 1027 | |
| 1028 | (F) You tried to declare a magical variable as a lexical variable. This |
| 1029 | is not allowed, because the magic can be tied to only one location |
| 1030 | (namely the global variable) and it would be incredibly confusing to |
| 1031 | have variables in your program that looked like magical variables but |
| 1032 | weren't. |
| 1033 | |
| 1034 | =item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison |
| 1035 | |
| 1036 | (F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons. |
| 1037 | You mentioned $a or $b in the same line as the <=> or cmp operator, |
| 1038 | and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical variable. |
| 1039 | Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the |
| 1040 | lexical variable. |
| 1041 | |
| 1042 | =item Can't use %s ref as %s ref |
| 1043 | |
| 1044 | (F) You've mixed up your reference types. You have to dereference a |
| 1045 | reference of the type needed. You can use the ref() function to |
| 1046 | test the type of the reference, if need be. |
| 1047 | |
| 1048 | =item Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use |
| 1049 | |
| 1050 | (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic |
| 1051 | references are disallowed. See L<perlref>. |
| 1052 | |
| 1053 | =item Can't use subscript on %s |
| 1054 | |
| 1055 | (F) The compiler tried to interpret a bracketed expression as a |
| 1056 | subscript. But to the left of the brackets was an expression that |
| 1057 | didn't look like an array reference, or anything else subscriptable. |
| 1058 | |
| 1059 | =item Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression |
| 1060 | |
| 1061 | (W syntax) In an ordinary expression, backslash is a unary operator that |
| 1062 | creates a reference to its argument. The use of backslash to indicate a |
| 1063 | backreference to a matched substring is valid only as part of a regular |
| 1064 | expression pattern. Trying to do this in ordinary Perl code produces a |
| 1065 | value that prints out looking like SCALAR(0xdecaf). Use the $1 form |
| 1066 | instead. |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | =item Can't weaken a nonreference |
| 1069 | |
| 1070 | (F) You attempted to weaken something that was not a reference. Only |
| 1071 | references can be weakened. |
| 1072 | |
| 1073 | =item Can't x= to read-only value |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | (F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the undefined value) |
| 1076 | with an assignment operator, which implies modifying the value itself. |
| 1077 | Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat that. |
| 1078 | |
| 1079 | =item Character in "C" format wrapped |
| 1080 | |
| 1081 | (W pack) You said |
| 1082 | |
| 1083 | pack("C", $x) |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | where $x is either less than 0 or more than 255; the C<"C"> format is |
| 1086 | only for encoding native operating system characters (ASCII, EBCDIC, |
| 1087 | and so on) and not for Unicode characters, so Perl behaved as if you meant |
| 1088 | |
| 1089 | pack("C", $x & 255) |
| 1090 | |
| 1091 | If you actually want to pack Unicode codepoints, use the C<"U"> format |
| 1092 | instead. |
| 1093 | |
| 1094 | =item Character in "c" format wrapped |
| 1095 | |
| 1096 | (W pack) You said |
| 1097 | |
| 1098 | pack("c", $x) |
| 1099 | |
| 1100 | where $x is either less than -128 or more than 127; the C<"c"> format |
| 1101 | is only for encoding native operating system characters (ASCII, EBCDIC, |
| 1102 | and so on) and not for Unicode characters, so Perl behaved as if you meant |
| 1103 | |
| 1104 | pack("c", $x & 255); |
| 1105 | |
| 1106 | If you actually want to pack Unicode codepoints, use the C<"U"> format |
| 1107 | instead. |
| 1108 | |
| 1109 | =item close() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 1110 | |
| 1111 | (W unopened) You tried to close a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 1112 | |
| 1113 | =item %s: Command not found |
| 1114 | |
| 1115 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 1116 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 1117 | |
| 1118 | =item Compilation failed in require |
| 1119 | |
| 1120 | (F) Perl could not compile a file specified in a C<require> statement. |
| 1121 | Perl uses this generic message when none of the errors that it |
| 1122 | encountered were severe enough to halt compilation immediately. |
| 1123 | |
| 1124 | =item Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded |
| 1125 | |
| 1126 | (W regexp) The regular expression engine uses recursion in complex |
| 1127 | situations where back-tracking is required. Recursion depth is limited |
| 1128 | to 32766, or perhaps less in architectures where the stack cannot grow |
| 1129 | arbitrarily. ("Simple" and "medium" situations are handled without |
| 1130 | recursion and are not subject to a limit.) Try shortening the string |
| 1131 | under examination; looping in Perl code (e.g. with C<while>) rather than |
| 1132 | in the regular expression engine; or rewriting the regular expression so |
| 1133 | that it is simpler or backtracks less. (See L<perlfaq2> for information |
| 1134 | on I<Mastering Regular Expressions>.) |
| 1135 | |
| 1136 | =item connect() on closed socket %s |
| 1137 | |
| 1138 | (W closed) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket. Did you forget |
| 1139 | to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 1140 | L<perlfunc/connect>. |
| 1141 | |
| 1142 | =item Constant(%s)%s: %s |
| 1143 | |
| 1144 | (F) The parser found inconsistencies either while attempting to define |
| 1145 | an overloaded constant, or when trying to find the character name |
| 1146 | specified in the C<\N{...}> escape. Perhaps you forgot to load the |
| 1147 | corresponding C<overload> or C<charnames> pragma? See L<charnames> and |
| 1148 | L<overload>. |
| 1149 | |
| 1150 | =item Constant is not %s reference |
| 1151 | |
| 1152 | (F) A constant value (perhaps declared using the C<use constant> pragma) |
| 1153 | is being dereferenced, but it amounts to the wrong type of reference. |
| 1154 | The message indicates the type of reference that was expected. This |
| 1155 | usually indicates a syntax error in dereferencing the constant value. |
| 1156 | See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> and L<constant>. |
| 1157 | |
| 1158 | =item Constant subroutine %s redefined |
| 1159 | |
| 1160 | (S|W redefine) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been |
| 1161 | eligible for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for |
| 1162 | commentary and workarounds. |
| 1163 | |
| 1164 | =item Constant subroutine %s undefined |
| 1165 | |
| 1166 | (W misc) You undefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible |
| 1167 | for inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and |
| 1168 | workarounds. |
| 1169 | |
| 1170 | =item Copy method did not return a reference |
| 1171 | |
| 1172 | (F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See |
| 1173 | L<overload/Copy Constructor>. |
| 1174 | |
| 1175 | =item CORE::%s is not a keyword |
| 1176 | |
| 1177 | (F) The CORE:: namespace is reserved for Perl keywords. |
| 1178 | |
| 1179 | =item corrupted regexp pointers |
| 1180 | |
| 1181 | (P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular |
| 1182 | expression compiler gave it. |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | =item corrupted regexp program |
| 1185 | |
| 1186 | (P) The regular expression engine got passed a regexp program without a |
| 1187 | valid magic number. |
| 1188 | |
| 1189 | =item Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at 0x%lx |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | (P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure. |
| 1192 | |
| 1193 | =item C<-p> destination: %s |
| 1194 | |
| 1195 | (F) An error occurred during the implicit output invoked by the C<-p> |
| 1196 | command-line switch. (This output goes to STDOUT unless you've |
| 1197 | redirected it with select().) |
| 1198 | |
| 1199 | =item C<-T> and C<-B> not implemented on filehandles |
| 1200 | |
| 1201 | (F) Perl can't peek at the stdio buffer of filehandles when it doesn't |
| 1202 | know about your kind of stdio. You'll have to use a filename instead. |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 | =item Deep recursion on subroutine "%s" |
| 1205 | |
| 1206 | (W recursion) This subroutine has called itself (directly or indirectly) |
| 1207 | 100 times more than it has returned. This probably indicates an |
| 1208 | infinite recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in |
| 1209 | which case it indicates something else. |
| 1210 | |
| 1211 | =item defined(@array) is deprecated |
| 1212 | |
| 1213 | (D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it |
| 1214 | checks for an undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the |
| 1215 | array is empty, just use C<if (@array) { # not empty }> for example. |
| 1216 | |
| 1217 | =item defined(%hash) is deprecated |
| 1218 | |
| 1219 | (D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on hashes because it |
| 1220 | checks for an undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the hash |
| 1221 | is empty, just use C<if (%hash) { # not empty }> for example. |
| 1222 | |
| 1223 | =item Delimiter for here document is too long |
| 1224 | |
| 1225 | (F) In a here document construct like C<<<FOO>, the label C<FOO> is too |
| 1226 | long for Perl to handle. You have to be seriously twisted to write code |
| 1227 | that triggers this error. |
| 1228 | |
| 1229 | =item Did not produce a valid header |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 | See Server error. |
| 1232 | |
| 1233 | =item %s did not return a true value |
| 1234 | |
| 1235 | (F) A required (or used) file must return a true value to indicate that |
| 1236 | it compiled correctly and ran its initialization code correctly. It's |
| 1237 | traditional to end such a file with a "1;", though any true value would |
| 1238 | do. See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 1239 | |
| 1240 | =item (Did you mean &%s instead?) |
| 1241 | |
| 1242 | (W) You probably referred to an imported subroutine &FOO as $FOO or some |
| 1243 | such. |
| 1244 | |
| 1245 | =item (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?) |
| 1246 | |
| 1247 | (W misc) Remember that "our" does not localize the declared global |
| 1248 | variable. You have declared it again in the same lexical scope, which |
| 1249 | seems superfluous. |
| 1250 | |
| 1251 | =item (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?) |
| 1252 | |
| 1253 | (W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant $hash{$key} or |
| 1254 | @hash{@keys}. On the other hand, maybe you just meant %hash and got |
| 1255 | carried away. |
| 1256 | |
| 1257 | =item Died |
| 1258 | |
| 1259 | (F) You passed die() an empty string (the equivalent of C<die "">) or |
| 1260 | you called it with no args and both C<$@> and C<$_> were empty. |
| 1261 | |
| 1262 | =item Document contains no data |
| 1263 | |
| 1264 | See Server error. |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 | =item Don't know how to handle magic of type '%s' |
| 1267 | |
| 1268 | (P) The internal handling of magical variables has been cursed. |
| 1269 | |
| 1270 | =item do_study: out of memory |
| 1271 | |
| 1272 | (P) This should have been caught by safemalloc() instead. |
| 1273 | |
| 1274 | =item (Do you need to predeclare %s?) |
| 1275 | |
| 1276 | (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s |
| 1277 | found where operator expected". It often means a subroutine or module |
| 1278 | name is being referenced that hasn't been declared yet. This may be |
| 1279 | because of ordering problems in your file, or because of a missing |
| 1280 | "sub", "package", "require", or "use" statement. If you're referencing |
| 1281 | something that isn't defined yet, you don't actually have to define the |
| 1282 | subroutine or package before the current location. You can use an empty |
| 1283 | "sub foo;" or "package FOO;" to enter a "forward" declaration. |
| 1284 | |
| 1285 | =item Duplicate free() ignored |
| 1286 | |
| 1287 | (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had |
| 1288 | already been freed. |
| 1289 | |
| 1290 | =item elseif should be elsif |
| 1291 | |
| 1292 | (S) There is no keyword "elseif" in Perl because Larry thinks it's ugly. |
| 1293 | Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call a method named |
| 1294 | "elseif" for the class returned by the following block. This is |
| 1295 | unlikely to be what you want. |
| 1296 | |
| 1297 | =item entering effective %s failed |
| 1298 | |
| 1299 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and |
| 1300 | effective uids or gids failed. |
| 1301 | |
| 1302 | =item Error converting file specification %s |
| 1303 | |
| 1304 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Because Perl may have to deal with file |
| 1305 | specifications in either VMS or Unix syntax, it converts them to a |
| 1306 | single form when it must operate on them directly. Either you've passed |
| 1307 | an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the |
| 1308 | conversion routines don't handle. Drat. |
| 1309 | |
| 1310 | =item %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression |
| 1311 | |
| 1312 | (F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular |
| 1313 | expression that contains the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, which |
| 1314 | is unsafe. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>, and L<perlsec>. |
| 1315 | |
| 1316 | =item %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time |
| 1317 | |
| 1318 | (F) Perl tried to compile a regular expression containing the |
| 1319 | C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion at run time, as it would when the |
| 1320 | pattern contains interpolated values. Since that is a security risk, it |
| 1321 | is not allowed. If you insist, you may still do this by explicitly |
| 1322 | building the pattern from an interpolated string at run time and using |
| 1323 | that in an eval(). See L<perlre/(?{ code })>. |
| 1324 | |
| 1325 | =item %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval' |
| 1326 | |
| 1327 | (F) A regular expression contained the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width |
| 1328 | assertion, but that construct is only allowed when the C<use re 'eval'> |
| 1329 | pragma is in effect. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>. |
| 1330 | |
| 1331 | =item Excessively long <> operator |
| 1332 | |
| 1333 | (F) The contents of a <> operator may not exceed the maximum size of a |
| 1334 | Perl identifier. If you're just trying to glob a long list of |
| 1335 | filenames, try using the glob() operator, or put the filenames into a |
| 1336 | variable and glob that. |
| 1337 | |
| 1338 | =item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors |
| 1339 | |
| 1340 | (F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails. |
| 1341 | |
| 1342 | =item Exiting eval via %s |
| 1343 | |
| 1344 | (W exiting) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means, such as a |
| 1345 | goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1346 | |
| 1347 | =item Exiting format via %s |
| 1348 | |
| 1349 | (W exiting) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means, such as a |
| 1350 | goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1351 | |
| 1352 | =item Exiting pseudo-block via %s |
| 1353 | |
| 1354 | (W exiting) You are exiting a rather special block construct (like a |
| 1355 | sort block or subroutine) by unconventional means, such as a goto, or a |
| 1356 | loop control statement. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 1357 | |
| 1358 | =item Exiting subroutine via %s |
| 1359 | |
| 1360 | (W exiting) You are exiting a subroutine by unconventional means, such |
| 1361 | as a goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1362 | |
| 1363 | =item Exiting substitution via %s |
| 1364 | |
| 1365 | (W exiting) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional means, such |
| 1366 | as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement. |
| 1367 | |
| 1368 | =item Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main) |
| 1369 | |
| 1370 | (W misc) You are blessing a reference to a zero length string. This has |
| 1371 | the effect of blessing the reference into the package main. This is |
| 1372 | usually not what you want. Consider providing a default target package, |
| 1373 | e.g. bless($ref, $p || 'MyPackage'); |
| 1374 | |
| 1375 | =item %s: Expression syntax |
| 1376 | |
| 1377 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 1378 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 1379 | |
| 1380 | =item %s failed--call queue aborted |
| 1381 | |
| 1382 | (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a CHECK, INIT, or |
| 1383 | END subroutine. Processing of the remainder of the queue of such |
| 1384 | routines has been prematurely ended. |
| 1385 | |
| 1386 | =item False [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1387 | |
| 1388 | (W regexp) A character class range must start and end at a literal |
| 1389 | character, not another character class like C<\d> or C<[:alpha:]>. The "-" |
| 1390 | in your false range is interpreted as a literal "-". Consider quoting the |
| 1391 | "-", "\-". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 1392 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 1393 | |
| 1394 | =item Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d |
| 1395 | |
| 1396 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Something untoward happened in a VMS |
| 1397 | system service or RTL routine; Perl's exit status should provide more |
| 1398 | details. The filename in "at %s" and the line number in "line %d" tell |
| 1399 | you which section of the Perl source code is distressed. |
| 1400 | |
| 1401 | =item fcntl is not implemented |
| 1402 | |
| 1403 | (F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement fcntl(). What is this, a |
| 1404 | PDP-11 or something? |
| 1405 | |
| 1406 | =item Filehandle %s opened only for input |
| 1407 | |
| 1408 | (W io) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If you intended it |
| 1409 | to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with "+<" or "+>" |
| 1410 | or "+>>" instead of with "<" or nothing. If you intended only to write |
| 1411 | the file, use ">" or ">>". See L<perlfunc/open>. |
| 1412 | |
| 1413 | =item Filehandle %s opened only for output |
| 1414 | |
| 1415 | (W io) You tried to read from a filehandle opened only for writing. If |
| 1416 | you intended it to be a read/write filehandle, you needed to open it |
| 1417 | with "+<" or "+>" or "+>>" instead of with "<" or nothing. If you |
| 1418 | intended only to read from the file, use "<". See L<perlfunc/open>. |
| 1419 | |
| 1420 | =item Final $ should be \$ or $name |
| 1421 | |
| 1422 | (F) You must now decide whether the final $ in a string was meant to be |
| 1423 | a literal dollar sign, or was meant to introduce a variable name that |
| 1424 | happens to be missing. So you have to put either the backslash or the |
| 1425 | name. |
| 1426 | |
| 1427 | =item Final @ should be \@ or @name |
| 1428 | |
| 1429 | (F) You must now decide whether the final @ in a string was meant to be |
| 1430 | a literal "at" sign, or was meant to introduce a variable name that |
| 1431 | happens to be missing. So you have to put either the backslash or the |
| 1432 | name. |
| 1433 | |
| 1434 | =item flock() on closed filehandle %s |
| 1435 | |
| 1436 | (W closed) The filehandle you're attempting to flock() got itself closed |
| 1437 | some time before now. Check your control flow. flock() operates on |
| 1438 | filehandles. Are you attempting to call flock() on a dirhandle by the |
| 1439 | same name? |
| 1440 | |
| 1441 | =item Quantifier follows nothing in regex; |
| 1442 | |
| 1443 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1444 | |
| 1445 | (F) You started a regular expression with a quantifier. Backslash it if you |
| 1446 | meant it literally. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 1447 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 1448 | |
| 1449 | =item Format not terminated |
| 1450 | |
| 1451 | (F) A format must be terminated by a line with a solitary dot. Perl got |
| 1452 | to the end of your file without finding such a line. |
| 1453 | |
| 1454 | =item Format %s redefined |
| 1455 | |
| 1456 | (W redefine) You redefined a format. To suppress this warning, say |
| 1457 | |
| 1458 | { |
| 1459 | no warnings; |
| 1460 | eval "format NAME =..."; |
| 1461 | } |
| 1462 | |
| 1463 | =item Found = in conditional, should be == |
| 1464 | |
| 1465 | (W syntax) You said |
| 1466 | |
| 1467 | if ($foo = 123) |
| 1468 | |
| 1469 | when you meant |
| 1470 | |
| 1471 | if ($foo == 123) |
| 1472 | |
| 1473 | (or something like that). |
| 1474 | |
| 1475 | =item %s found where operator expected |
| 1476 | |
| 1477 | (S) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator. If it |
| 1478 | sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an |
| 1479 | operator, it gives you this warning. Usually it indicates that an |
| 1480 | operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon. |
| 1481 | |
| 1482 | =item gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s" |
| 1483 | |
| 1484 | (S) A warning from the GDBM_File extension that a store failed. |
| 1485 | |
| 1486 | =item gethostent not implemented |
| 1487 | |
| 1488 | (F) Your C library apparently doesn't implement gethostent(), probably |
| 1489 | because if it did, it'd feel morally obligated to return every hostname |
| 1490 | on the Internet. |
| 1491 | |
| 1492 | =item get%sname() on closed socket %s |
| 1493 | |
| 1494 | (W closed) You tried to get a socket or peer socket name on a closed |
| 1495 | socket. Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call? |
| 1496 | |
| 1497 | =item getpwnam returned invalid UIC %#o for user "%s" |
| 1498 | |
| 1499 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. The call to C<sys$getuai> underlying the |
| 1500 | C<getpwnam> operator returned an invalid UIC. |
| 1501 | |
| 1502 | =item getsockopt() on closed socket %s |
| 1503 | |
| 1504 | (W closed) You tried to get a socket option on a closed socket. Did you |
| 1505 | forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 1506 | L<perlfunc/getsockopt>. |
| 1507 | |
| 1508 | =item Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name |
| 1509 | |
| 1510 | (F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all variables |
| 1511 | must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), declared beforehand using |
| 1512 | "our", or explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable |
| 1513 | is in (using "::"). |
| 1514 | |
| 1515 | =item glob failed (%s) |
| 1516 | |
| 1517 | (W glob) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for |
| 1518 | C<glob> and C<< <*.c> >>. Usually, this means that you supplied a |
| 1519 | C<glob> pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a |
| 1520 | nonzero status. If the message indicates that the abnormal exit |
| 1521 | resulted in a coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) is |
| 1522 | broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in |
| 1523 | config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it |
| 1524 | were csh (e.g. C<full_csh='/usr/bin/tcsh'>); otherwise, make them all |
| 1525 | empty (except that C<d_csh> should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will |
| 1526 | think csh is missing. In either case, after editing config.sh, run |
| 1527 | C<./Configure -S> and rebuild Perl. |
| 1528 | |
| 1529 | =item Glob not terminated |
| 1530 | |
| 1531 | (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting |
| 1532 | a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and |
| 1533 | not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out |
| 1534 | earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". |
| 1535 | |
| 1536 | =item Got an error from DosAllocMem |
| 1537 | |
| 1538 | (P) An error peculiar to OS/2. Most probably you're using an obsolete |
| 1539 | version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway. |
| 1540 | |
| 1541 | =item goto must have label |
| 1542 | |
| 1543 | (F) Unlike with "next" or "last", you're not allowed to goto an |
| 1544 | unspecified destination. See L<perlfunc/goto>. |
| 1545 | |
| 1546 | =item %s had compilation errors |
| 1547 | |
| 1548 | (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails. |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 | =item Had to create %s unexpectedly |
| 1551 | |
| 1552 | (S internal) A routine asked for a symbol from a symbol table that ought |
| 1553 | to have existed already, but for some reason it didn't, and had to be |
| 1554 | created on an emergency basis to prevent a core dump. |
| 1555 | |
| 1556 | =item Hash %%s missing the % in argument %d of %s() |
| 1557 | |
| 1558 | (D deprecated) Really old Perl let you omit the % on hash names in some |
| 1559 | spots. This is now heavily deprecated. |
| 1560 | |
| 1561 | =item %s has too many errors |
| 1562 | |
| 1563 | (F) The parser has given up trying to parse the program after 10 errors. |
| 1564 | Further error messages would likely be uninformative. |
| 1565 | |
| 1566 | =item Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable |
| 1567 | |
| 1568 | (W portable) The hexadecimal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 1569 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 1570 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 1571 | |
| 1572 | =item Identifier too long |
| 1573 | |
| 1574 | (F) Perl limits identifiers (names for variables, functions, etc.) to |
| 1575 | about 250 characters for simple names, and somewhat more for compound |
| 1576 | names (like C<$A::B>). You've exceeded Perl's limits. Future versions |
| 1577 | of Perl are likely to eliminate these arbitrary limitations. |
| 1578 | |
| 1579 | =item Illegal binary digit %s |
| 1580 | |
| 1581 | (F) You used a digit other than 0 or 1 in a binary number. |
| 1582 | |
| 1583 | =item Illegal binary digit %s ignored |
| 1584 | |
| 1585 | (W digit) You may have tried to use a digit other than 0 or 1 in a |
| 1586 | binary number. Interpretation of the binary number stopped before the |
| 1587 | offending digit. |
| 1588 | |
| 1589 | =item Illegal character %s (carriage return) |
| 1590 | |
| 1591 | (F) Perl normally treats carriage returns in the program text as it |
| 1592 | would any other whitespace, which means you should never see this error |
| 1593 | when Perl was built using standard options. For some reason, your |
| 1594 | version of Perl appears to have been built without this support. Talk |
| 1595 | to your Perl administrator. |
| 1596 | |
| 1597 | =item Illegal division by zero |
| 1598 | |
| 1599 | (F) You tried to divide a number by 0. Either something was wrong in |
| 1600 | your logic, or you need to put a conditional in to guard against |
| 1601 | meaningless input. |
| 1602 | |
| 1603 | =item Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored |
| 1604 | |
| 1605 | (W digit) You may have tried to use a character other than 0 - 9 or |
| 1606 | A - F, a - f in a hexadecimal number. Interpretation of the hexadecimal |
| 1607 | number stopped before the illegal character. |
| 1608 | |
| 1609 | =item Illegal modulus zero |
| 1610 | |
| 1611 | (F) You tried to divide a number by 0 to get the remainder. Most |
| 1612 | numbers don't take to this kindly. |
| 1613 | |
| 1614 | =item Illegal number of bits in vec |
| 1615 | |
| 1616 | (F) The number of bits in vec() (the third argument) must be a power of |
| 1617 | two from 1 to 32 (or 64, if your platform supports that). |
| 1618 | |
| 1619 | =item Illegal octal digit %s |
| 1620 | |
| 1621 | (F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number. |
| 1622 | |
| 1623 | =item Illegal octal digit %s ignored |
| 1624 | |
| 1625 | (W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number. |
| 1626 | Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9. |
| 1627 | |
| 1628 | =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s |
| 1629 | |
| 1630 | (X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the |
| 1631 | following switches: B<-[DIMUdmw]>. |
| 1632 | |
| 1633 | =item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s" |
| 1634 | |
| 1635 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the CRTL's |
| 1636 | internal environ array, and encountered an element without the C<=> |
| 1637 | delimiter used to separate keys from values. The element is ignored. |
| 1638 | |
| 1639 | =item Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s| |
| 1640 | |
| 1641 | (W internal) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read a logical |
| 1642 | name or CLI symbol definition when preparing to iterate over %ENV, and |
| 1643 | didn't see the expected delimiter between key and value, so the line was |
| 1644 | ignored. |
| 1645 | |
| 1646 | =item (in cleanup) %s |
| 1647 | |
| 1648 | (W misc) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised |
| 1649 | the indicated exception. Since destructors are usually called by the |
| 1650 | system at arbitrary points during execution, and often a vast number of |
| 1651 | times, the warning is issued only once for any number of failures that |
| 1652 | would otherwise result in the same message being repeated. |
| 1653 | |
| 1654 | Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C<G_KEEPERR> flag could |
| 1655 | also result in this warning. See L<perlcall/G_KEEPERR>. |
| 1656 | |
| 1657 | =item Insecure dependency in %s |
| 1658 | |
| 1659 | (F) You tried to do something that the tainting mechanism didn't like. |
| 1660 | The tainting mechanism is turned on when you're running setuid or |
| 1661 | setgid, or when you specify B<-T> to turn it on explicitly. The |
| 1662 | tainting mechanism labels all data that's derived directly or indirectly |
| 1663 | from the user, who is considered to be unworthy of your trust. If any |
| 1664 | such data is used in a "dangerous" operation, you get this error. See |
| 1665 | L<perlsec> for more information. |
| 1666 | |
| 1667 | =item Insecure directory in %s |
| 1668 | |
| 1669 | (F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or |
| 1670 | setgid script if C<$ENV{PATH}> contains a directory that is writable by |
| 1671 | the world. See L<perlsec>. |
| 1672 | |
| 1673 | =item Insecure $ENV{%s} while running %s |
| 1674 | |
| 1675 | (F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or |
| 1676 | setgid script if any of C<$ENV{PATH}>, C<$ENV{IFS}>, C<$ENV{CDPATH}>, |
| 1677 | C<$ENV{ENV}> or C<$ENV{BASH_ENV}> are derived from data supplied (or |
| 1678 | potentially supplied) by the user. The script must set the path to a |
| 1679 | known value, using trustworthy data. See L<perlsec>. |
| 1680 | |
| 1681 | =item Integer overflow in %s number |
| 1682 | |
| 1683 | (W overflow) The hexadecimal, octal or binary number you have specified |
| 1684 | either as a literal or as an argument to hex() or oct() is too big for |
| 1685 | your architecture, and has been converted to a floating point number. |
| 1686 | On a 32-bit architecture the largest hexadecimal, octal or binary number |
| 1687 | representable without overflow is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or |
| 1688 | 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 respectively. Note that Perl |
| 1689 | transparently promotes all numbers to a floating point representation |
| 1690 | internally--subject to loss of precision errors in subsequent |
| 1691 | operations. |
| 1692 | |
| 1693 | =item Internal disaster in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1694 | |
| 1695 | (P) Something went badly wrong in the regular expression parser. |
| 1696 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 1697 | discovered. |
| 1698 | |
| 1699 | |
| 1700 | =item Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks |
| 1701 | |
| 1702 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl keeps track of the number of times |
| 1703 | you've called C<fork> and C<exec>, to determine whether the current call |
| 1704 | to C<exec> should affect the current script or a subprocess (see |
| 1705 | L<perlvms/"exec LIST">). Somehow, this count has become scrambled, so |
| 1706 | Perl is making a guess and treating this C<exec> as a request to |
| 1707 | terminate the Perl script and execute the specified command. |
| 1708 | |
| 1709 | =item Internal urp in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1710 | |
| 1711 | (P) Something went badly awry in the regular expression parser. The |
| 1712 | <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 1713 | discovered. |
| 1714 | |
| 1715 | |
| 1716 | =item %s (...) interpreted as function |
| 1717 | |
| 1718 | (W syntax) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator |
| 1719 | followed by parentheses turns into a function, with all the list |
| 1720 | operators arguments found inside the parentheses. See |
| 1721 | L<perlop/Terms and List Operators (Leftward)>. |
| 1722 | |
| 1723 | =item Invalid %s attribute: %s |
| 1724 | |
| 1725 | The indicated attribute for a subroutine or variable was not recognized |
| 1726 | by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. |
| 1727 | |
| 1728 | =item Invalid %s attributes: %s |
| 1729 | |
| 1730 | The indicated attributes for a subroutine or variable were not |
| 1731 | recognized by Perl or by a user-supplied handler. See L<attributes>. |
| 1732 | |
| 1733 | =item Invalid conversion in %s: "%s" |
| 1734 | |
| 1735 | (W printf) Perl does not understand the given format conversion. See |
| 1736 | L<perlfunc/sprintf>. |
| 1737 | |
| 1738 | =item Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1739 | |
| 1740 | (F) The range specified in a character class had a minimum character |
| 1741 | greater than the maximum character. One possibility is that you forgot the |
| 1742 | C<{}> from your ending C<\x{}> - C<\x> without the curly braces can go only |
| 1743 | up to C<ff>. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 1744 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 1745 | |
| 1746 | =item Invalid [] range "%s" in transliteration operator |
| 1747 | |
| 1748 | (F) The range specified in the tr/// or y/// operator had a minimum |
| 1749 | character greater than the maximum character. See L<perlop>. |
| 1750 | |
| 1751 | =item Invalid separator character %s in attribute list |
| 1752 | |
| 1753 | (F) Something other than a colon or whitespace was seen between the |
| 1754 | elements of an attribute list. If the previous attribute had a |
| 1755 | parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that list was terminated too soon. |
| 1756 | See L<attributes>. |
| 1757 | |
| 1758 | =item Invalid type in pack: '%s' |
| 1759 | |
| 1760 | (F) The given character is not a valid pack type. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 1761 | (W pack) The given character is not a valid pack type but used to be |
| 1762 | silently ignored. |
| 1763 | |
| 1764 | =item Invalid type in unpack: '%s' |
| 1765 | |
| 1766 | (F) The given character is not a valid unpack type. See |
| 1767 | L<perlfunc/unpack>. |
| 1768 | (W unpack) The given character is not a valid unpack type but used to be |
| 1769 | silently ignored. |
| 1770 | |
| 1771 | =item ioctl is not implemented |
| 1772 | |
| 1773 | (F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement ioctl(), which is pretty |
| 1774 | strange for a machine that supports C. |
| 1775 | |
| 1776 | =item ioctl() on unopened %s |
| 1777 | |
| 1778 | (W unopened) You tried ioctl() on a filehandle that was never opened. |
| 1779 | Check you control flow and number of arguments. |
| 1780 | |
| 1781 | =item IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture |
| 1782 | |
| 1783 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement the sockatmark() functionality, |
| 1784 | neither as a system call or an ioctl call (SIOCATMARK). |
| 1785 | |
| 1786 | =item `%s' is not a code reference |
| 1787 | |
| 1788 | (W) The second (fourth, sixth, ...) argument of overload::constant needs |
| 1789 | to be a code reference. Either an anonymous subroutine, or a reference |
| 1790 | to a subroutine. |
| 1791 | |
| 1792 | =item `%s' is not an overloadable type |
| 1793 | |
| 1794 | (W) You tried to overload a constant type the overload package is unaware of. |
| 1795 | |
| 1796 | =item junk on end of regexp |
| 1797 | |
| 1798 | (P) The regular expression parser is confused. |
| 1799 | |
| 1800 | =item Label not found for "last %s" |
| 1801 | |
| 1802 | (F) You named a loop to break out of, but you're not currently in a loop |
| 1803 | of that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 1804 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 1805 | |
| 1806 | =item Label not found for "next %s" |
| 1807 | |
| 1808 | (F) You named a loop to continue, but you're not currently in a loop of |
| 1809 | that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 1810 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 1811 | |
| 1812 | =item Label not found for "redo %s" |
| 1813 | |
| 1814 | (F) You named a loop to restart, but you're not currently in a loop of |
| 1815 | that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See |
| 1816 | L<perlfunc/last>. |
| 1817 | |
| 1818 | =item leaving effective %s failed |
| 1819 | |
| 1820 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, switching the real and |
| 1821 | effective uids or gids failed. |
| 1822 | |
| 1823 | =item listen() on closed socket %s |
| 1824 | |
| 1825 | (W closed) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket. Did you forget |
| 1826 | to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 1827 | L<perlfunc/listen>. |
| 1828 | |
| 1829 | =item lstat() on filehandle %s |
| 1830 | |
| 1831 | (W io) You tried to do a lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean |
| 1832 | by that? lstat() makes sense only on filenames. (Perl did a fstat() |
| 1833 | instead on the filehandle.) |
| 1834 | |
| 1835 | =item Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet |
| 1836 | |
| 1837 | (F) Due to limitations in the current implementation, array and hash |
| 1838 | values cannot be returned in subroutines used in lvalue context. See |
| 1839 | L<perlsub/"Lvalue subroutines">. |
| 1840 | |
| 1841 | =item Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex; |
| 1842 | |
| 1843 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1844 | |
| 1845 | (F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can |
| 1846 | handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release. The <-- HERE |
| 1847 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 1848 | |
| 1849 | =item Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX |
| 1850 | |
| 1851 | (F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERLLIB_PREFIX should be of the form |
| 1852 | |
| 1853 | prefix1;prefix2 |
| 1854 | |
| 1855 | or |
| 1856 | |
| 1857 | prefix1 prefix2 |
| 1858 | |
| 1859 | with nonempty prefix1 and prefix2. If C<prefix1> is indeed a prefix of |
| 1860 | a builtin library search path, prefix2 is substituted. The error may |
| 1861 | appear if components are not found, or are too long. See |
| 1862 | "PERLLIB_PREFIX" in L<perlos2>. |
| 1863 | |
| 1864 | =item Malformed UTF-8 character (%s) |
| 1865 | |
| 1866 | Perl detected something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding rules. |
| 1867 | |
| 1868 | =item Malformed UTF-16 surrogate |
| 1869 | |
| 1870 | Perl thought it was reading UTF-16 encoded character data but while |
| 1871 | doing it Perl met a malformed Unicode surrogate. |
| 1872 | |
| 1873 | =item %s matches null string many times in regex; |
| 1874 | |
| 1875 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 1876 | |
| 1877 | (W regexp) The pattern you've specified would be an infinite loop if the |
| 1878 | regular expression engine didn't specifically check for that. The <-- HERE |
| 1879 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 1880 | See L<perlre>. |
| 1881 | |
| 1882 | =item "%s" may clash with future reserved word |
| 1883 | |
| 1884 | (W) This warning may be due to running a perl5 script through a perl4 |
| 1885 | interpreter, especially if the word that is being warned about is |
| 1886 | "use" or "my". |
| 1887 | |
| 1888 | =item % may only be used in unpack |
| 1889 | |
| 1890 | (F) You can't pack a string by supplying a checksum, because the |
| 1891 | checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other way. |
| 1892 | See L<perlfunc/unpack>. |
| 1893 | |
| 1894 | =item Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing |
| 1895 | |
| 1896 | (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that |
| 1897 | doesn't resolve to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. |
| 1898 | |
| 1899 | =item Method %s not permitted |
| 1900 | |
| 1901 | See Server error. |
| 1902 | |
| 1903 | =item Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting on line %d |
| 1904 | |
| 1905 | (S) An advisory indicating that the previous error may have been caused |
| 1906 | by a missing delimiter on a string or pattern, because it eventually |
| 1907 | ended earlier on the current line. |
| 1908 | |
| 1909 | =item Misplaced _ in number |
| 1910 | |
| 1911 | (W syntax) An underscore (underbar) in a numeric constant did not |
| 1912 | separate two digits. |
| 1913 | |
| 1914 | =item Missing %sbrace%s on \N{} |
| 1915 | |
| 1916 | (F) Wrong syntax of character name literal C<\N{charname}> within |
| 1917 | double-quotish context. |
| 1918 | |
| 1919 | =item Missing comma after first argument to %s function |
| 1920 | |
| 1921 | (F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an |
| 1922 | "indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them. |
| 1923 | |
| 1924 | =item Missing command in piped open |
| 1925 | |
| 1926 | (W pipe) You used the C<open(FH, "| command")> or |
| 1927 | C<open(FH, "command |")> construction, but the command was missing or |
| 1928 | blank. |
| 1929 | |
| 1930 | =item Missing name in "my sub" |
| 1931 | |
| 1932 | (F) The reserved syntax for lexically scoped subroutines requires that |
| 1933 | they have a name with which they can be found. |
| 1934 | |
| 1935 | =item Missing $ on loop variable |
| 1936 | |
| 1937 | (F) Apparently you've been programming in B<csh> too much. Variables |
| 1938 | are always mentioned with the $ in Perl, unlike in the shells, where it |
| 1939 | can vary from one line to the next. |
| 1940 | |
| 1941 | =item (Missing operator before %s?) |
| 1942 | |
| 1943 | (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s |
| 1944 | found where operator expected". Often the missing operator is a comma. |
| 1945 | |
| 1946 | =item Missing right curly or square bracket |
| 1947 | |
| 1948 | (F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than closing |
| 1949 | ones. As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place you |
| 1950 | were last editing. |
| 1951 | |
| 1952 | =item (Missing semicolon on previous line?) |
| 1953 | |
| 1954 | (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s |
| 1955 | found where operator expected". Don't automatically put a semicolon on |
| 1956 | the previous line just because you saw this message. |
| 1957 | |
| 1958 | =item Modification of a read-only value attempted |
| 1959 | |
| 1960 | (F) You tried, directly or indirectly, to change the value of a |
| 1961 | constant. You didn't, of course, try "2 = 1", because the compiler |
| 1962 | catches that. But an easy way to do the same thing is: |
| 1963 | |
| 1964 | sub mod { $_[0] = 1 } |
| 1965 | mod(2); |
| 1966 | |
| 1967 | Another way is to assign to a substr() that's off the end of the string. |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | Yet another way is to assign to a C<foreach> loop I<VAR> when I<VAR> |
| 1970 | is aliased to a constant in the look I<LIST>: |
| 1971 | |
| 1972 | $x = 1; |
| 1973 | foreach my $n ($x, 2) { |
| 1974 | $n *= 2; # modifies the $x, but fails on attempt to modify the 2 |
| 1975 | } |
| 1976 | |
| 1977 | =item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, %s |
| 1978 | |
| 1979 | (F) You tried to make an array value spring into existence, and the |
| 1980 | subscript was probably negative, even counting from end of the array |
| 1981 | backwards. |
| 1982 | |
| 1983 | =item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s |
| 1984 | |
| 1985 | (P) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it |
| 1986 | couldn't be created for some peculiar reason. |
| 1987 | |
| 1988 | =item Module name must be constant |
| 1989 | |
| 1990 | (F) Only a bare module name is allowed as the first argument to a "use". |
| 1991 | |
| 1992 | =item Module name required with -%c option |
| 1993 | |
| 1994 | (F) The C<-M> or C<-m> options say that Perl should load some module, but |
| 1995 | you omitted the name of the module. Consult L<perlrun> for full details |
| 1996 | about C<-M> and C<-m>. |
| 1997 | |
| 1998 | =item msg%s not implemented |
| 1999 | |
| 2000 | (F) You don't have System V message IPC on your system. |
| 2001 | |
| 2002 | =item Multidimensional syntax %s not supported |
| 2003 | |
| 2004 | (W syntax) Multidimensional arrays aren't written like C<$foo[1,2,3]>. |
| 2005 | They're written like C<$foo[1][2][3]>, as in C. |
| 2006 | |
| 2007 | =item / must be followed by a*, A* or Z* |
| 2008 | |
| 2009 | (F) You had a pack template indicating a counted-length string, |
| 2010 | Currently the only things that can have their length counted are a*, A* |
| 2011 | or Z*. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2012 | |
| 2013 | =item / must be followed by a, A or Z |
| 2014 | |
| 2015 | (F) You had an unpack template indicating a counted-length string, which |
| 2016 | must be followed by one of the letters a, A or Z to indicate what sort |
| 2017 | of string is to be unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2018 | |
| 2019 | =item / must follow a numeric type |
| 2020 | |
| 2021 | (F) You had an unpack template that contained a '#', but this did not |
| 2022 | follow some numeric unpack specification. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2023 | |
| 2024 | =item "my sub" not yet implemented |
| 2025 | |
| 2026 | (F) Lexically scoped subroutines are not yet implemented. Don't try |
| 2027 | that yet. |
| 2028 | |
| 2029 | =item "my" variable %s can't be in a package |
| 2030 | |
| 2031 | (F) Lexically scoped variables aren't in a package, so it doesn't make |
| 2032 | sense to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use |
| 2033 | local() if you want to localize a package variable. |
| 2034 | |
| 2035 | =item Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo |
| 2036 | |
| 2037 | (W once) Typographical errors often show up as unique variable names. |
| 2038 | If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then just mention it |
| 2039 | again somehow to suppress the message. The C<our> declaration is |
| 2040 | provided for this purpose. |
| 2041 | |
| 2042 | =item Negative length |
| 2043 | |
| 2044 | (F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with a buffer |
| 2045 | length that is less than 0. This is difficult to imagine. |
| 2046 | |
| 2047 | =item Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2048 | |
| 2049 | (F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So |
| 2050 | things like ** or +* or ?* are illegal. The <-- HERE shows in the regular |
| 2051 | expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 2052 | |
| 2053 | Note that the minimal matching quantifiers, C<*?>, C<+?>, and |
| 2054 | C<??> appear to be nested quantifiers, but aren't. See L<perlre>. |
| 2055 | |
| 2056 | =item %s never introduced |
| 2057 | |
| 2058 | (S internal) The symbol in question was declared but somehow went out of |
| 2059 | scope before it could possibly have been used. |
| 2060 | |
| 2061 | =item No %s allowed while running setuid |
| 2062 | |
| 2063 | (F) Certain operations are deemed to be too insecure for a setuid or |
| 2064 | setgid script to even be allowed to attempt. Generally speaking there |
| 2065 | will be another way to do what you want that is, if not secure, at least |
| 2066 | securable. See L<perlsec>. |
| 2067 | |
| 2068 | =item No B<-e> allowed in setuid scripts |
| 2069 | |
| 2070 | (F) A setuid script can't be specified by the user. |
| 2071 | |
| 2072 | =item No comma allowed after %s |
| 2073 | |
| 2074 | (F) A list operator that has a filehandle or "indirect object" is not |
| 2075 | allowed to have a comma between that and the following arguments. |
| 2076 | Otherwise it'd be just another one of the arguments. |
| 2077 | |
| 2078 | One possible cause for this is that you expected to have imported a |
| 2079 | constant to your name space with B<use> or B<import> while no such |
| 2080 | importing took place, it may for example be that your operating system |
| 2081 | does not support that particular constant. Hopefully you did use an |
| 2082 | explicit import list for the constants you expect to see, please see |
| 2083 | L<perlfunc/use> and L<perlfunc/import>. While an explicit import list |
| 2084 | would probably have caught this error earlier it naturally does not |
| 2085 | remedy the fact that your operating system still does not support that |
| 2086 | constant. Maybe you have a typo in the constants of the symbol import |
| 2087 | list of B<use> or B<import> or in the constant name at the line where |
| 2088 | this error was triggered? |
| 2089 | |
| 2090 | =item No command into which to pipe on command line |
| 2091 | |
| 2092 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2093 | redirection, and found a '|' at the end of the command line, so it |
| 2094 | doesn't know where you want to pipe the output from this command. |
| 2095 | |
| 2096 | =item No DB::DB routine defined |
| 2097 | |
| 2098 | (F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, but |
| 2099 | for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof) didn't |
| 2100 | define a routine to be called at the beginning of each statement. Which |
| 2101 | is odd, because the file should have been required automatically, and |
| 2102 | should have blown up the require if it didn't parse right. |
| 2103 | |
| 2104 | =item No dbm on this machine |
| 2105 | |
| 2106 | (P) This is counted as an internal error, because every machine should |
| 2107 | supply dbm nowadays, because Perl comes with SDBM. See L<SDBM_File>. |
| 2108 | |
| 2109 | =item No DBsub routine |
| 2110 | |
| 2111 | (F) The currently executing code was compiled with the B<-d> switch, |
| 2112 | but for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof) |
| 2113 | didn't define a DB::sub routine to be called at the beginning of each |
| 2114 | ordinary subroutine call. |
| 2115 | |
| 2116 | =item No error file after 2> or 2>> on command line |
| 2117 | |
| 2118 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2119 | redirection, and found a '2>' or a '2>>' on the command line, but can't |
| 2120 | find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stderr. |
| 2121 | |
| 2122 | =item No input file after < on command line |
| 2123 | |
| 2124 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2125 | redirection, and found a '<' on the command line, but can't find the |
| 2126 | name of the file from which to read data for stdin. |
| 2127 | |
| 2128 | =item No #! line |
| 2129 | |
| 2130 | (F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a well-formed #! line |
| 2131 | even on machines that don't support the #! construct. |
| 2132 | |
| 2133 | =item "no" not allowed in expression |
| 2134 | |
| 2135 | (F) The "no" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and |
| 2136 | returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>. |
| 2137 | |
| 2138 | =item No output file after > on command line |
| 2139 | |
| 2140 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2141 | redirection, and found a lone '>' at the end of the command line, so it |
| 2142 | doesn't know where you wanted to redirect stdout. |
| 2143 | |
| 2144 | =item No output file after > or >> on command line |
| 2145 | |
| 2146 | (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl handles its own command line |
| 2147 | redirection, and found a '>' or a '>>' on the command line, but can't |
| 2148 | find the name of the file to which to write data destined for stdout. |
| 2149 | |
| 2150 | =item No package name allowed for variable %s in "our" |
| 2151 | |
| 2152 | (F) Fully qualified variable names are not allowed in "our" |
| 2153 | declarations, because that doesn't make much sense under existing |
| 2154 | semantics. Such syntax is reserved for future extensions. |
| 2155 | |
| 2156 | =item No Perl script found in input |
| 2157 | |
| 2158 | (F) You called C<perl -x>, but no line was found in the file beginning |
| 2159 | with #! and containing the word "perl". |
| 2160 | |
| 2161 | =item No setregid available |
| 2162 | |
| 2163 | (F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setregid() call for |
| 2164 | your system. |
| 2165 | |
| 2166 | =item No setreuid available |
| 2167 | |
| 2168 | (F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the setreuid() call for |
| 2169 | your system. |
| 2170 | |
| 2171 | =item No space allowed after -%c |
| 2172 | |
| 2173 | (F) The argument to the indicated command line switch must follow |
| 2174 | immediately after the switch, without intervening spaces. |
| 2175 | |
| 2176 | =item No %s specified for -%c |
| 2177 | |
| 2178 | (F) The indicated command line switch needs a mandatory argument, but |
| 2179 | you haven't specified one. |
| 2180 | |
| 2181 | =item No such pipe open |
| 2182 | |
| 2183 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The internal routine my_pclose() tried to |
| 2184 | close a pipe which hadn't been opened. This should have been caught |
| 2185 | earlier as an attempt to close an unopened filehandle. |
| 2186 | |
| 2187 | =item No such pseudo-hash field "%s" |
| 2188 | |
| 2189 | (F) You tried to access an array as a hash, but the field name used is |
| 2190 | not defined. The hash at index 0 should map all valid field names to |
| 2191 | array indices for that to work. |
| 2192 | |
| 2193 | =item No such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of type %s |
| 2194 | |
| 2195 | (F) You tried to access a field of a typed variable where the type does |
| 2196 | not know about the field name. The field names are looked up in the |
| 2197 | %FIELDS hash in the type package at compile time. The %FIELDS hash is |
| 2198 | %usually set up with the 'fields' pragma. |
| 2199 | |
| 2200 | =item No such signal: SIG%s |
| 2201 | |
| 2202 | (W signal) You specified a signal name as a subscript to %SIG that was |
| 2203 | not recognized. Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal |
| 2204 | names on your system. |
| 2205 | |
| 2206 | =item Not a CODE reference |
| 2207 | |
| 2208 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a |
| 2209 | subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead. You can |
| 2210 | use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See |
| 2211 | also L<perlref>. |
| 2212 | |
| 2213 | =item Not a format reference |
| 2214 | |
| 2215 | (F) I'm not sure how you managed to generate a reference to an anonymous |
| 2216 | format, but this indicates you did, and that it didn't exist. |
| 2217 | |
| 2218 | =item Not a GLOB reference |
| 2219 | |
| 2220 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a "typeglob" (that is, a |
| 2221 | symbol table entry that looks like C<*foo>), but found a reference to |
| 2222 | something else instead. You can use the ref() function to find out what |
| 2223 | kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 2224 | |
| 2225 | =item Not a HASH reference |
| 2226 | |
| 2227 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a hash value, but found a |
| 2228 | reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function to |
| 2229 | find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 2230 | |
| 2231 | =item Not an ARRAY reference |
| 2232 | |
| 2233 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to an array value, but found |
| 2234 | a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function |
| 2235 | to find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 2236 | |
| 2237 | =item Not a perl script |
| 2238 | |
| 2239 | (F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a well-formed #! line |
| 2240 | even on machines that don't support the #! construct. The line must |
| 2241 | mention perl. |
| 2242 | |
| 2243 | =item Not a SCALAR reference |
| 2244 | |
| 2245 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a scalar value, but found |
| 2246 | a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function |
| 2247 | to find out what kind of ref it really was. See L<perlref>. |
| 2248 | |
| 2249 | =item Not a subroutine reference |
| 2250 | |
| 2251 | (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a |
| 2252 | subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead. You can |
| 2253 | use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See |
| 2254 | also L<perlref>. |
| 2255 | |
| 2256 | =item Not a subroutine reference in overload table |
| 2257 | |
| 2258 | (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that |
| 2259 | doesn't somehow point to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. |
| 2260 | |
| 2261 | =item Not enough arguments for %s |
| 2262 | |
| 2263 | (F) The function requires more arguments than you specified. |
| 2264 | |
| 2265 | =item Not enough format arguments |
| 2266 | |
| 2267 | (W syntax) A format specified more picture fields than the next line |
| 2268 | supplied. See L<perlform>. |
| 2269 | |
| 2270 | =item %s: not found |
| 2271 | |
| 2272 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead |
| 2273 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl |
| 2274 | yourself. |
| 2275 | |
| 2276 | =item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC |
| 2277 | |
| 2278 | (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl was unable to find the local |
| 2279 | timezone offset, so it's assuming that local system time is equivalent |
| 2280 | to UTC. If it's not, define the logical name |
| 2281 | F<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL> to translate to the number of seconds which |
| 2282 | need to be added to UTC to get local time. |
| 2283 | |
| 2284 | =item Null filename used |
| 2285 | |
| 2286 | (F) You can't require the null filename, especially because on many |
| 2287 | machines that means the current directory! See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 2288 | |
| 2289 | =item NULL OP IN RUN |
| 2290 | |
| 2291 | (P debugging) Some internal routine called run() with a null opcode |
| 2292 | pointer. |
| 2293 | |
| 2294 | =item Null picture in formline |
| 2295 | |
| 2296 | (F) The first argument to formline must be a valid format picture |
| 2297 | specification. It was found to be empty, which probably means you |
| 2298 | supplied it an uninitialized value. See L<perlform>. |
| 2299 | |
| 2300 | =item Null realloc |
| 2301 | |
| 2302 | (P) An attempt was made to realloc NULL. |
| 2303 | |
| 2304 | =item NULL regexp argument |
| 2305 | |
| 2306 | (P) The internal pattern matching routines blew it big time. |
| 2307 | |
| 2308 | =item NULL regexp parameter |
| 2309 | |
| 2310 | (P) The internal pattern matching routines are out of their gourd. |
| 2311 | |
| 2312 | =item Number too long |
| 2313 | |
| 2314 | (F) Perl limits the representation of decimal numbers in programs to |
| 2315 | about about 250 characters. You've exceeded that length. Future |
| 2316 | versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation. In |
| 2317 | the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of |
| 2318 | "1_000_000"). |
| 2319 | |
| 2320 | =item Octal number in vector unsupported |
| 2321 | |
| 2322 | (F) Numbers with a leading C<0> are not currently allowed in vectors. |
| 2323 | The octal number interpretation of such numbers may be supported in a |
| 2324 | future version. |
| 2325 | |
| 2326 | =item Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable |
| 2327 | |
| 2328 | (W portable) The octal number you specified is larger than 2**32-1 |
| 2329 | (4294967295) and therefore non-portable between systems. See |
| 2330 | L<perlport> for more on portability concerns. |
| 2331 | |
| 2332 | See also L<perlport> for writing portable code. |
| 2333 | |
| 2334 | =item Odd number of arguments for overload::constant |
| 2335 | |
| 2336 | (W) The call to overload::constant contained an odd number of arguments. |
| 2337 | The arguments should come in pairs. |
| 2338 | |
| 2339 | =item Odd number of elements in hash assignment |
| 2340 | |
| 2341 | (W misc) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, |
| 2342 | which is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs. |
| 2343 | |
| 2344 | =item Offset outside string |
| 2345 | |
| 2346 | (F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with an offset |
| 2347 | pointing outside the buffer. This is difficult to imagine. The sole |
| 2348 | exception to this is that C<sysread()>ing past the buffer will extend |
| 2349 | the buffer and zero pad the new area. |
| 2350 | |
| 2351 | =item -%s on unopened filehandle %s |
| 2352 | |
| 2353 | (W unopened) You tried to invoke a file test operator on a filehandle |
| 2354 | that isn't open. Check your control flow. See also L<perlfunc/-X>. |
| 2355 | |
| 2356 | =item %s() on unopened %s |
| 2357 | |
| 2358 | (W unopened) An I/O operation was attempted on a filehandle that was |
| 2359 | never initialized. You need to do an open(), a sysopen(), or a socket() |
| 2360 | call, or call a constructor from the FileHandle package. |
| 2361 | |
| 2362 | =item oops: oopsAV |
| 2363 | |
| 2364 | (S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. |
| 2365 | |
| 2366 | =item oops: oopsHV |
| 2367 | |
| 2368 | (S internal) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. |
| 2369 | |
| 2370 | =item Operation `%s': no method found, %s |
| 2371 | |
| 2372 | (F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no |
| 2373 | handler was defined. While some handlers can be autogenerated in terms |
| 2374 | of other handlers, there is no default handler for any operation, unless |
| 2375 | C<fallback> overloading key is specified to be true. See L<overload>. |
| 2376 | |
| 2377 | =item Operator or semicolon missing before %s |
| 2378 | |
| 2379 | (S ambiguous) You used a variable or subroutine call where the parser |
| 2380 | was expecting an operator. The parser has assumed you really meant to |
| 2381 | use an operator, but this is highly likely to be incorrect. For |
| 2382 | example, if you say "*foo *foo" it will be interpreted as if you said |
| 2383 | "*foo * 'foo'". |
| 2384 | |
| 2385 | =item "our" variable %s redeclared |
| 2386 | |
| 2387 | (W misc) You seem to have already declared the same global once before |
| 2388 | in the current lexical scope. |
| 2389 | |
| 2390 | =item Out of memory! |
| 2391 | |
| 2392 | (X) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient |
| 2393 | remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. Perl has |
| 2394 | no option but to exit immediately. |
| 2395 | |
| 2396 | =item Out of memory during "large" request for %s |
| 2397 | |
| 2398 | (F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient |
| 2399 | remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However, |
| 2400 | the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is 64K), so a |
| 2401 | possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted. |
| 2402 | |
| 2403 | =item Out of memory during request for %s |
| 2404 | |
| 2405 | (X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was |
| 2406 | insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the |
| 2407 | request. |
| 2408 | |
| 2409 | The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it |
| 2410 | depends on the way perl was compiled. By default it is not trappable. |
| 2411 | However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^M> as an |
| 2412 | emergency pool after die()ing with this message. In this case the error |
| 2413 | is trappable I<once>, and the error message will include the line and file |
| 2414 | where the failed request happened. |
| 2415 | |
| 2416 | =item Out of memory during ridiculously large request |
| 2417 | |
| 2418 | (F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. This error |
| 2419 | is most likely to be caused by a typo in the Perl program. e.g., |
| 2420 | C<$arr[time]> instead of C<$arr[$time]>. |
| 2421 | |
| 2422 | =item Out of memory for yacc stack |
| 2423 | |
| 2424 | (F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue |
| 2425 | parsing, but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or |
| 2426 | otherwise. |
| 2427 | |
| 2428 | =item @ outside of string |
| 2429 | |
| 2430 | (F) You had a pack template that specified an absolute position outside |
| 2431 | the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2432 | |
| 2433 | =item %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s |
| 2434 | |
| 2435 | (W reserved) A lowercase attribute name was used that had a |
| 2436 | package-specific handler. That name might have a meaning to Perl itself |
| 2437 | some day, even though it doesn't yet. Perhaps you should use a |
| 2438 | mixed-case attribute name, instead. See L<attributes>. |
| 2439 | |
| 2440 | =item Package '%s' not found (did you use the incorrect case?) |
| 2441 | |
| 2442 | (W misc) You included a package file via C<use>, but the package name |
| 2443 | did not match the file name. It's possible that you misspelled the |
| 2444 | package name. |
| 2445 | |
| 2446 | =item page overflow |
| 2447 | |
| 2448 | (W io) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a |
| 2449 | page. See L<perlform>. |
| 2450 | |
| 2451 | =item panic: %s |
| 2452 | |
| 2453 | (P) An internal error. |
| 2454 | |
| 2455 | =item panic: ck_grep |
| 2456 | |
| 2457 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a grep. |
| 2458 | |
| 2459 | =item panic: ck_split |
| 2460 | |
| 2461 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to compile a split. |
| 2462 | |
| 2463 | =item panic: corrupt saved stack index |
| 2464 | |
| 2465 | (P) The savestack was requested to restore more localized values than |
| 2466 | there are in the savestack. |
| 2467 | |
| 2468 | =item panic: del_backref |
| 2469 | |
| 2470 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset a weak |
| 2471 | reference. |
| 2472 | |
| 2473 | =item panic: die %s |
| 2474 | |
| 2475 | (P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered |
| 2476 | it wasn't an eval context. |
| 2477 | |
| 2478 | =item panic: pp_match |
| 2479 | |
| 2480 | (P) The internal pp_match() routine was called with invalid operational |
| 2481 | data. |
| 2482 | |
| 2483 | =item panic: do_subst |
| 2484 | |
| 2485 | (P) The internal pp_subst() routine was called with invalid operational |
| 2486 | data. |
| 2487 | |
| 2488 | =item panic: do_trans_%s |
| 2489 | |
| 2490 | (P) The internal do_trans routines were called with invalid operational |
| 2491 | data. |
| 2492 | |
| 2493 | =item panic: frexp |
| 2494 | |
| 2495 | (P) The library function frexp() failed, making printf("%f") impossible. |
| 2496 | |
| 2497 | =item panic: goto |
| 2498 | |
| 2499 | (P) We popped the context stack to a context with the specified label, |
| 2500 | and then discovered it wasn't a context we know how to do a goto in. |
| 2501 | |
| 2502 | =item panic: INTERPCASEMOD |
| 2503 | |
| 2504 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state at a case modifier. |
| 2505 | |
| 2506 | =item panic: INTERPCONCAT |
| 2507 | |
| 2508 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state parsing a string with brackets. |
| 2509 | |
| 2510 | =item panic: kid popen errno read |
| 2511 | |
| 2512 | (F) forked child returned an incomprehensible message about its errno. |
| 2513 | |
| 2514 | =item panic: last |
| 2515 | |
| 2516 | (P) We popped the context stack to a block context, and then discovered |
| 2517 | it wasn't a block context. |
| 2518 | |
| 2519 | =item panic: leave_scope clearsv |
| 2520 | |
| 2521 | (P) A writable lexical variable became read-only somehow within the |
| 2522 | scope. |
| 2523 | |
| 2524 | =item panic: leave_scope inconsistency |
| 2525 | |
| 2526 | (P) The savestack probably got out of sync. At least, there was an |
| 2527 | invalid enum on the top of it. |
| 2528 | |
| 2529 | =item panic: magic_killbackrefs |
| 2530 | |
| 2531 | (P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset all weak |
| 2532 | references to an object. |
| 2533 | |
| 2534 | =item panic: malloc |
| 2535 | |
| 2536 | (P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of malloc. |
| 2537 | |
| 2538 | =item panic: mapstart |
| 2539 | |
| 2540 | (P) The compiler is screwed up with respect to the map() function. |
| 2541 | |
| 2542 | =item panic: null array |
| 2543 | |
| 2544 | (P) One of the internal array routines was passed a null AV pointer. |
| 2545 | |
| 2546 | =item panic: pad_alloc |
| 2547 | |
| 2548 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 2549 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 2550 | |
| 2551 | =item panic: pad_free curpad |
| 2552 | |
| 2553 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 2554 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 2555 | |
| 2556 | =item panic: pad_free po |
| 2557 | |
| 2558 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 2559 | |
| 2560 | =item panic: pad_reset curpad |
| 2561 | |
| 2562 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 2563 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 2564 | |
| 2565 | =item panic: pad_sv po |
| 2566 | |
| 2567 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 2568 | |
| 2569 | =item panic: pad_swipe curpad |
| 2570 | |
| 2571 | (P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad it was allocating |
| 2572 | and freeing temporaries and lexicals from. |
| 2573 | |
| 2574 | =item panic: pad_swipe po |
| 2575 | |
| 2576 | (P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected internally. |
| 2577 | |
| 2578 | =item panic: pp_iter |
| 2579 | |
| 2580 | (P) The foreach iterator got called in a non-loop context frame. |
| 2581 | |
| 2582 | =item panic: pp_split |
| 2583 | |
| 2584 | (P) Something terrible went wrong in setting up for the split. |
| 2585 | |
| 2586 | =item panic: realloc |
| 2587 | |
| 2588 | (P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of realloc. |
| 2589 | |
| 2590 | =item panic: restartop |
| 2591 | |
| 2592 | (P) Some internal routine requested a goto (or something like it), and |
| 2593 | didn't supply the destination. |
| 2594 | |
| 2595 | =item panic: return |
| 2596 | |
| 2597 | (P) We popped the context stack to a subroutine or eval context, and |
| 2598 | then discovered it wasn't a subroutine or eval context. |
| 2599 | |
| 2600 | =item panic: scan_num |
| 2601 | |
| 2602 | (P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number. |
| 2603 | |
| 2604 | =item panic: sv_insert |
| 2605 | |
| 2606 | (P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there |
| 2607 | was string. |
| 2608 | |
| 2609 | =item panic: top_env |
| 2610 | |
| 2611 | (P) The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something weird like that. |
| 2612 | |
| 2613 | =item panic: yylex |
| 2614 | |
| 2615 | (P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier. |
| 2616 | |
| 2617 | =item panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen |
| 2618 | |
| 2619 | (P) Something tried to call utf16_to_utf8 with an odd (as opposed |
| 2620 | to even) byte length. |
| 2621 | |
| 2622 | =item Parentheses missing around "%s" list |
| 2623 | |
| 2624 | (W parenthesis) You said something like |
| 2625 | |
| 2626 | my $foo, $bar = @_; |
| 2627 | |
| 2628 | when you meant |
| 2629 | |
| 2630 | my ($foo, $bar) = @_; |
| 2631 | |
| 2632 | Remember that "my", "our", and "local" bind tighter than comma. |
| 2633 | |
| 2634 | =item Perl %s required--this is only version %s, stopped |
| 2635 | |
| 2636 | (F) The module in question uses features of a version of Perl more |
| 2637 | recent than the currently running version. How long has it been since |
| 2638 | you upgraded, anyway? See L<perlfunc/require>. |
| 2639 | |
| 2640 | =item PERL_SH_DIR too long |
| 2641 | |
| 2642 | (F) An error peculiar to OS/2. PERL_SH_DIR is the directory to find the |
| 2643 | C<sh>-shell in. See "PERL_SH_DIR" in L<perlos2>. |
| 2644 | |
| 2645 | =item perl: warning: Setting locale failed. |
| 2646 | |
| 2647 | (S) The whole warning message will look something like: |
| 2648 | |
| 2649 | perl: warning: Setting locale failed. |
| 2650 | perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: |
| 2651 | LC_ALL = "En_US", |
| 2652 | LANG = (unset) |
| 2653 | are supported and installed on your system. |
| 2654 | perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). |
| 2655 | |
| 2656 | Exactly what were the failed locale settings varies. In the above the |
| 2657 | settings were that the LC_ALL was "En_US" and the LANG had no value. |
| 2658 | This error means that Perl detected that you and/or your operating |
| 2659 | system supplier and/or system administrator have set up the so-called |
| 2660 | locale system but Perl could not use those settings. This was not |
| 2661 | dead serious, fortunately: there is a "default locale" called "C" that |
| 2662 | Perl can and will use, the script will be run. Before you really fix |
| 2663 | the problem, however, you will get the same error message each time |
| 2664 | you run Perl. How to really fix the problem can be found in |
| 2665 | L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>. |
| 2666 | |
| 2667 | =item perlio: argument list not closed for layer "%s" |
| 2668 | |
| 2669 | (S) When pushing a layer with arguments onto the Perl I/O system you forgot |
| 2670 | the ) that closes the argument list. (Layers take care of transforming |
| 2671 | data between external and internal representations.) Perl stopped parsing |
| 2672 | the layer list at this point and did not attempt to push this layer. |
| 2673 | If your program didn't explicitly request the failing operation, it may be |
| 2674 | the result of the value of the environment variable PERLIO. |
| 2675 | |
| 2676 | =item perlio: invalid separator character %s in attribute list |
| 2677 | |
| 2678 | (S) When pushing layers onto the Perl I/O system, something other than a |
| 2679 | colon or whitespace was seen between the elements of an layer list. |
| 2680 | If the previous attribute had a parenthesised parameter list, perhaps that |
| 2681 | list was terminated too soon. |
| 2682 | |
| 2683 | =item perlio: unknown layer "%s" |
| 2684 | |
| 2685 | (S) An attempt was made to push an unknown layer onto the Perl I/O |
| 2686 | system. (Layers take care of transforming data between external and |
| 2687 | internal representations.) Note that some layers, such as C<mmap>, |
| 2688 | are not supported in all environments. If your program didn't |
| 2689 | explicitly request the failing operation, it may be the result of the |
| 2690 | value of the environment variable PERLIO. |
| 2691 | |
| 2692 | =item Permission denied |
| 2693 | |
| 2694 | (F) The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were up to no good. |
| 2695 | |
| 2696 | =item pid %x not a child |
| 2697 | |
| 2698 | (W exec) A warning peculiar to VMS. Waitpid() was asked to wait for a |
| 2699 | process which isn't a subprocess of the current process. While this is |
| 2700 | fine from VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended. |
| 2701 | |
| 2702 | =item POSIX syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes in regex; |
| 2703 | |
| 2704 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2705 | |
| 2706 | (W unsafe) The character class constructs [: :], [= =], and [. .] go |
| 2707 | I<inside> character classes, the [] are part of the construct, for example: |
| 2708 | /[012[:alpha:]345]/. Note that [= =] and [. .] are not currently |
| 2709 | implemented; they are simply placeholders for future extensions and will |
| 2710 | cause fatal errors. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 2711 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 2712 | |
| 2713 | =item POSIX syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions in regex; |
| 2714 | |
| 2715 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2716 | |
| 2717 | (F regexp) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax |
| 2718 | beginning with "[." and ending with ".]" is reserved for future extensions. |
| 2719 | If you need to represent those character sequences inside a regular |
| 2720 | expression character class, just quote the square brackets with the |
| 2721 | backslash: "\[." and ".\]". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression |
| 2722 | about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 2723 | |
| 2724 | =item POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions in regex; |
| 2725 | |
| 2726 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2727 | |
| 2728 | (F) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax beginning |
| 2729 | with "[=" and ending with "=]" is reserved for future extensions. If you |
| 2730 | need to represent those character sequences inside a regular expression |
| 2731 | character class, just quote the square brackets with the backslash: "\[=" |
| 2732 | and "=\]". The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 2733 | problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 2734 | |
| 2735 | =item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex; |
| 2736 | |
| 2737 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2738 | |
| 2739 | (F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown. The <-- HERE |
| 2740 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. |
| 2741 | See L<perlre>. |
| 2742 | |
| 2743 | =item POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument |
| 2744 | |
| 2745 | (F) Your system has POSIX getpgrp(), which takes no argument, unlike |
| 2746 | the BSD version, which takes a pid. |
| 2747 | |
| 2748 | =item Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list |
| 2749 | |
| 2750 | (W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal |
| 2751 | strings, comment characters are not ignored, but are instead treated as |
| 2752 | literal data. (You may have used different delimiters than the |
| 2753 | parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently used.) |
| 2754 | |
| 2755 | You probably wrote something like this: |
| 2756 | |
| 2757 | @list = qw( |
| 2758 | a # a comment |
| 2759 | b # another comment |
| 2760 | ); |
| 2761 | |
| 2762 | when you should have written this: |
| 2763 | |
| 2764 | @list = qw( |
| 2765 | a |
| 2766 | b |
| 2767 | ); |
| 2768 | |
| 2769 | If you really want comments, build your list the |
| 2770 | old-fashioned way, with quotes and commas: |
| 2771 | |
| 2772 | @list = ( |
| 2773 | 'a', # a comment |
| 2774 | 'b', # another comment |
| 2775 | ); |
| 2776 | |
| 2777 | =item Possible attempt to separate words with commas |
| 2778 | |
| 2779 | (W qw) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; therefore |
| 2780 | commas aren't needed to separate the items. (You may have used |
| 2781 | different delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are also |
| 2782 | frequently used.) |
| 2783 | |
| 2784 | You probably wrote something like this: |
| 2785 | |
| 2786 | qw! a, b, c !; |
| 2787 | |
| 2788 | which puts literal commas into some of the list items. Write it without |
| 2789 | commas if you don't want them to appear in your data: |
| 2790 | |
| 2791 | qw! a b c !; |
| 2792 | |
| 2793 | =item Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument |
| 2794 | |
| 2795 | (F) An ioctl() or fcntl() returned more than Perl was bargaining for. |
| 2796 | Perl guesses a reasonable buffer size, but puts a sentinel byte at the |
| 2797 | end of the buffer just in case. This sentinel byte got clobbered, and |
| 2798 | Perl assumes that memory is now corrupted. See L<perlfunc/ioctl>. |
| 2799 | |
| 2800 | =item Possible Y2K bug: %s |
| 2801 | |
| 2802 | (W y2k) You are concatenating the number 19 with another number, which |
| 2803 | could be a potential Year 2000 problem. |
| 2804 | |
| 2805 | =item pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead |
| 2806 | |
| 2807 | (D deprecated) You have written something like this: |
| 2808 | |
| 2809 | sub doit |
| 2810 | { |
| 2811 | use attrs qw(locked); |
| 2812 | } |
| 2813 | |
| 2814 | You should use the new declaration syntax instead. |
| 2815 | |
| 2816 | sub doit : locked |
| 2817 | { |
| 2818 | ... |
| 2819 | |
| 2820 | The C<use attrs> pragma is now obsolete, and is only provided for |
| 2821 | backward-compatibility. See L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes">. |
| 2822 | |
| 2823 | =item Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s) |
| 2824 | |
| 2825 | (S precedence) The old irregular construct |
| 2826 | |
| 2827 | open FOO || die; |
| 2828 | |
| 2829 | is now misinterpreted as |
| 2830 | |
| 2831 | open(FOO || die); |
| 2832 | |
| 2833 | because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary and |
| 2834 | list operators. (The old open was a little of both.) You must put |
| 2835 | parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new "or" operator instead |
| 2836 | of "||". |
| 2837 | |
| 2838 | =item Premature end of script headers |
| 2839 | |
| 2840 | See Server error. |
| 2841 | |
| 2842 | =item printf() on closed filehandle %s |
| 2843 | |
| 2844 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 2845 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 2846 | |
| 2847 | =item print() on closed filehandle %s |
| 2848 | |
| 2849 | (W closed) The filehandle you're printing on got itself closed sometime |
| 2850 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 2851 | |
| 2852 | =item Process terminated by SIG%s |
| 2853 | |
| 2854 | (W) This is a standard message issued by OS/2 applications, while *nix |
| 2855 | applications die in silence. It is considered a feature of the OS/2 |
| 2856 | port. One can easily disable this by appropriate sighandlers, see |
| 2857 | L<perlipc/"Signals">. See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT" |
| 2858 | in L<perlos2>. |
| 2859 | |
| 2860 | =item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s |
| 2861 | |
| 2862 | (S unsafe) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been |
| 2863 | declared or defined with a different function prototype. |
| 2864 | |
| 2865 | =item Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex; |
| 2866 | |
| 2867 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2868 | |
| 2869 | (F) There is currently a limit to the size of the min and max values of the |
| 2870 | {min,max} construct. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where |
| 2871 | the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 2872 | |
| 2873 | =item Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression; |
| 2874 | |
| 2875 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2876 | |
| 2877 | (W regexp) You applied a regular expression quantifier in a place where |
| 2878 | it makes no sense, such as on a zero-width assertion. Try putting the |
| 2879 | quantifier inside the assertion instead. For example, the way to match |
| 2880 | "abc" provided that it is followed by three repetitions of "xyz" is |
| 2881 | C</abc(?=(?:xyz){3})/>, not C</abc(?=xyz){3}/>. |
| 2882 | |
| 2883 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 2884 | discovered. |
| 2885 | |
| 2886 | =item Range iterator outside integer range |
| 2887 | |
| 2888 | (F) One (or both) of the numeric arguments to the range operator ".." |
| 2889 | are outside the range which can be represented by integers internally. |
| 2890 | One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string increment |
| 2891 | by prepending "0" to your numbers. |
| 2892 | |
| 2893 | =item readline() on closed filehandle %s |
| 2894 | |
| 2895 | (W closed) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime |
| 2896 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 2897 | |
| 2898 | =item Reallocation too large: %lx |
| 2899 | |
| 2900 | (F) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. |
| 2901 | |
| 2902 | =item realloc() of freed memory ignored |
| 2903 | |
| 2904 | (S malloc) An internal routine called realloc() on something that had |
| 2905 | already been freed. |
| 2906 | |
| 2907 | =item Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING to use B<-D> switch |
| 2908 | |
| 2909 | (F debugging) You can't use the B<-D> option unless the code to produce |
| 2910 | the desired output is compiled into Perl, which entails some overhead, |
| 2911 | which is why it's currently left out of your copy. |
| 2912 | |
| 2913 | =item Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s' |
| 2914 | |
| 2915 | (F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used. Probably indicates |
| 2916 | an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy. |
| 2917 | |
| 2918 | =item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method %s |
| 2919 | |
| 2920 | (F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were encountered while invoking |
| 2921 | a method. Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance |
| 2922 | hierarchy. |
| 2923 | |
| 2924 | =item Reference found where even-sized list expected |
| 2925 | |
| 2926 | (W misc) You gave a single reference where Perl was expecting a list |
| 2927 | with an even number of elements (for assignment to a hash). This usually |
| 2928 | means that you used the anon hash constructor when you meant to use |
| 2929 | parens. In any case, a hash requires key/value B<pairs>. |
| 2930 | |
| 2931 | %hash = { one => 1, two => 2, }; # WRONG |
| 2932 | %hash = [ qw/ an anon array / ]; # WRONG |
| 2933 | %hash = ( one => 1, two => 2, ); # right |
| 2934 | %hash = qw( one 1 two 2 ); # also fine |
| 2935 | |
| 2936 | =item Reference is already weak |
| 2937 | |
| 2938 | (W misc) You have attempted to weaken a reference that is already weak. |
| 2939 | Doing so has no effect. |
| 2940 | |
| 2941 | =item Reference miscount in sv_replace() |
| 2942 | |
| 2943 | (W internal) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with |
| 2944 | a reference count of other than 1. |
| 2945 | |
| 2946 | =item Reference to nonexistent group in regex; |
| 2947 | |
| 2948 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 2949 | |
| 2950 | (F) You used something like C<\7> in your regular expression, but there are |
| 2951 | not at least seven sets of capturing parentheses in the expression. If you |
| 2952 | wanted to have the character with value 7 inserted into the regular expression, |
| 2953 | prepend a zero to make the number at least two digits: C<\07> |
| 2954 | |
| 2955 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 2956 | discovered. |
| 2957 | |
| 2958 | =item regexp memory corruption |
| 2959 | |
| 2960 | (P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular |
| 2961 | expression compiler gave it. |
| 2962 | |
| 2963 | =item Regexp out of space |
| 2964 | |
| 2965 | (P) A "can't happen" error, because safemalloc() should have caught it |
| 2966 | earlier. |
| 2967 | |
| 2968 | =item Repeat count in pack overflows |
| 2969 | |
| 2970 | (F) You can't specify a repeat count so large that it overflows your |
| 2971 | signed integers. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 2972 | |
| 2973 | =item Repeat count in unpack overflows |
| 2974 | |
| 2975 | (F) You can't specify a repeat count so large that it overflows your |
| 2976 | signed integers. See L<perlfunc/unpack>. |
| 2977 | |
| 2978 | =item Reversed %s= operator |
| 2979 | |
| 2980 | (W syntax) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The = must |
| 2981 | always comes last, to avoid ambiguity with subsequent unary operators. |
| 2982 | |
| 2983 | =item Runaway format |
| 2984 | |
| 2985 | (F) Your format contained the ~~ repeat-until-blank sequence, but it |
| 2986 | produced 200 lines at once, and the 200th line looked exactly like the |
| 2987 | 199th line. Apparently you didn't arrange for the arguments to exhaust |
| 2988 | themselves, either by using ^ instead of @ (for scalar variables), or by |
| 2989 | shifting or popping (for array variables). See L<perlform>. |
| 2990 | |
| 2991 | =item Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s] |
| 2992 | |
| 2993 | (W syntax) You've used an array slice (indicated by @) to select a |
| 2994 | single element of an array. Generally it's better to ask for a scalar |
| 2995 | value (indicated by $). The difference is that C<$foo[&bar]> always |
| 2996 | behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its |
| 2997 | argument, while C<@foo[&bar]> behaves like a list when you assign to it, |
| 2998 | and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things |
| 2999 | if you're expecting only one subscript. |
| 3000 | |
| 3001 | On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the array |
| 3002 | element as a list, you need to look into how references work, because |
| 3003 | Perl will not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See |
| 3004 | L<perlref>. |
| 3005 | |
| 3006 | =item Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s} |
| 3007 | |
| 3008 | (W syntax) You've used a hash slice (indicated by @) to select a single |
| 3009 | element of a hash. Generally it's better to ask for a scalar value |
| 3010 | (indicated by $). The difference is that C<$foo{&bar}> always behaves |
| 3011 | like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating its |
| 3012 | argument, while C<@foo{&bar}> behaves like a list when you assign to it, |
| 3013 | and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird things |
| 3014 | if you're expecting only one subscript. |
| 3015 | |
| 3016 | On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the hash element |
| 3017 | as a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will |
| 3018 | not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See |
| 3019 | L<perlref>. |
| 3020 | |
| 3021 | =item Scalars leaked: %d |
| 3022 | |
| 3023 | (P) Something went wrong in Perl's internal bookkeeping of scalars: |
| 3024 | not all scalar variables were deallocated by the time Perl exited. |
| 3025 | What this usually indicates is a memory leak, which is of course bad, |
| 3026 | especially if the Perl program is intended to be long-running. |
| 3027 | |
| 3028 | =item Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl |
| 3029 | |
| 3030 | (F) Oddly, the suidperl program was invoked on a script without a setuid |
| 3031 | or setgid bit set. This doesn't make much sense. |
| 3032 | |
| 3033 | =item Search pattern not terminated |
| 3034 | |
| 3035 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a // or m{} |
| 3036 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 3037 | Missing the leading C<$> from a variable C<$m> may cause this error. |
| 3038 | |
| 3039 | =item %sseek() on unopened filehandle |
| 3040 | |
| 3041 | (W unopened) You tried to use the seek() or sysseek() function on a |
| 3042 | filehandle that was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 3043 | |
| 3044 | =item select not implemented |
| 3045 | |
| 3046 | (F) This machine doesn't implement the select() system call. |
| 3047 | |
| 3048 | =item Self-ties of arrays and hashes are not supported |
| 3049 | |
| 3050 | (F) Self-ties are of arrays and hashes are not supported in |
| 3051 | the current implementation. |
| 3052 | |
| 3053 | =item Semicolon seems to be missing |
| 3054 | |
| 3055 | (W semicolon) A nearby syntax error was probably caused by a missing |
| 3056 | semicolon, or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma. |
| 3057 | |
| 3058 | =item semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string |
| 3059 | |
| 3060 | (S internal) The internal newSVsv() routine was called to duplicate a |
| 3061 | scalar that had previously been marked as free. |
| 3062 | |
| 3063 | =item sem%s not implemented |
| 3064 | |
| 3065 | (F) You don't have System V semaphore IPC on your system. |
| 3066 | |
| 3067 | =item send() on closed socket %s |
| 3068 | |
| 3069 | (W closed) The socket you're sending to got itself closed sometime |
| 3070 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 3071 | |
| 3072 | =item Sequence (? incomplete in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3073 | |
| 3074 | (F) A regular expression ended with an incomplete extension (?. The <-- HERE |
| 3075 | shows in the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 3076 | L<perlre>. |
| 3077 | |
| 3078 | =item Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or not {}-balanced in regex; |
| 3079 | |
| 3080 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3081 | |
| 3082 | (F) If the contents of a (?{...}) clause contains braces, they must balance |
| 3083 | for Perl to properly detect the end of the clause. The <-- HERE shows in |
| 3084 | the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 3085 | L<perlre>. |
| 3086 | |
| 3087 | =item Sequence (?%s...) not implemented in regex; |
| 3088 | |
| 3089 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3090 | |
| 3091 | (F) A proposed regular expression extension has the character reserved but |
| 3092 | has not yet been written. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3093 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3094 | |
| 3095 | =item Sequence (?%s...) not recognized in regex; |
| 3096 | |
| 3097 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3098 | |
| 3099 | (F) You used a regular expression extension that doesn't make sense. The |
| 3100 | <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 3101 | discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3102 | |
| 3103 | =item Sequence (?#... not terminated in regex; |
| 3104 | |
| 3105 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3106 | |
| 3107 | (F) A regular expression comment must be terminated by a closing |
| 3108 | parenthesis. Embedded parentheses aren't allowed. The <-- HERE shows in |
| 3109 | the regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See |
| 3110 | L<perlre>. |
| 3111 | |
| 3112 | =item 500 Server error |
| 3113 | |
| 3114 | See Server error. |
| 3115 | |
| 3116 | =item Server error |
| 3117 | |
| 3118 | This is the error message generally seen in a browser window when trying |
| 3119 | to run a CGI program (including SSI) over the web. The actual error text |
| 3120 | varies widely from server to server. The most frequently-seen variants |
| 3121 | are "500 Server error", "Method (something) not permitted", "Document |
| 3122 | contains no data", "Premature end of script headers", and "Did not |
| 3123 | produce a valid header". |
| 3124 | |
| 3125 | B<This is a CGI error, not a Perl error>. |
| 3126 | |
| 3127 | You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible by the |
| 3128 | user CGI is running the script under (which is probably not the user |
| 3129 | account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables |
| 3130 | (like PATH) from the user it isn't running under, and isn't in a |
| 3131 | location where the CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less. |
| 3132 | Please see the following for more information: |
| 3133 | |
| 3134 | http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/idiots-guide.html |
| 3135 | http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html |
| 3136 | ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq |
| 3137 | http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html |
| 3138 | http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html |
| 3139 | |
| 3140 | You should also look at L<perlfaq9>. |
| 3141 | |
| 3142 | =item setegid() not implemented |
| 3143 | |
| 3144 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$)>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 3145 | support the setegid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 3146 | didn't think so. |
| 3147 | |
| 3148 | =item seteuid() not implemented |
| 3149 | |
| 3150 | (F) You tried to assign to C<< $> >>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 3151 | support the seteuid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 3152 | didn't think so. |
| 3153 | |
| 3154 | =item setpgrp can't take arguments |
| 3155 | |
| 3156 | (F) Your system has the setpgrp() from BSD 4.2, which takes no |
| 3157 | arguments, unlike POSIX setpgid(), which takes a process ID and process |
| 3158 | group ID. |
| 3159 | |
| 3160 | =item setrgid() not implemented |
| 3161 | |
| 3162 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$(>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 3163 | support the setrgid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 3164 | didn't think so. |
| 3165 | |
| 3166 | =item setruid() not implemented |
| 3167 | |
| 3168 | (F) You tried to assign to C<$<>, and your operating system doesn't |
| 3169 | support the setruid() system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure |
| 3170 | didn't think so. |
| 3171 | |
| 3172 | =item setsockopt() on closed socket %s |
| 3173 | |
| 3174 | (W closed) You tried to set a socket option on a closed socket. Did you |
| 3175 | forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See |
| 3176 | L<perlfunc/setsockopt>. |
| 3177 | |
| 3178 | =item Setuid/gid script is writable by world |
| 3179 | |
| 3180 | (F) The setuid emulator won't run a script that is writable by the |
| 3181 | world, because the world might have written on it already. |
| 3182 | |
| 3183 | =item shm%s not implemented |
| 3184 | |
| 3185 | (F) You don't have System V shared memory IPC on your system. |
| 3186 | |
| 3187 | =item <> should be quotes |
| 3188 | |
| 3189 | (F) You wrote C<< require <file> >> when you should have written |
| 3190 | C<require 'file'>. |
| 3191 | |
| 3192 | =item /%s/ should probably be written as "%s" |
| 3193 | |
| 3194 | (W syntax) You have used a pattern where Perl expected to find a string, |
| 3195 | as in the first argument to C<join>. Perl will treat the true or false |
| 3196 | result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string, which is |
| 3197 | probably not what you had in mind. |
| 3198 | |
| 3199 | =item shutdown() on closed socket %s |
| 3200 | |
| 3201 | (W closed) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket. Seems a bit |
| 3202 | superfluous. |
| 3203 | |
| 3204 | =item SIG%s handler "%s" not defined |
| 3205 | |
| 3206 | (W signal) The signal handler named in %SIG doesn't, in fact, exist. |
| 3207 | Perhaps you put it into the wrong package? |
| 3208 | |
| 3209 | =item sort is now a reserved word |
| 3210 | |
| 3211 | (F) An ancient error message that almost nobody ever runs into anymore. |
| 3212 | But before sort was a keyword, people sometimes used it as a filehandle. |
| 3213 | |
| 3214 | =item Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value |
| 3215 | |
| 3216 | (F) A sort comparison routine must return a number. You probably blew |
| 3217 | it by not using C<< <=> >> or C<cmp>, or by not using them correctly. |
| 3218 | See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 3219 | |
| 3220 | =item Sort subroutine didn't return single value |
| 3221 | |
| 3222 | (F) A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more |
| 3223 | or less than one element. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 3224 | |
| 3225 | =item Split loop |
| 3226 | |
| 3227 | (P) The split was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a split shouldn't |
| 3228 | iterate more times than there are characters of input, which is what |
| 3229 | happened.) See L<perlfunc/split>. |
| 3230 | |
| 3231 | =item Statement unlikely to be reached |
| 3232 | |
| 3233 | (W exec) You did an exec() with some statement after it other than a |
| 3234 | die(). This is almost always an error, because exec() never returns |
| 3235 | unless there was a failure. You probably wanted to use system() |
| 3236 | instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in |
| 3237 | a block by itself. |
| 3238 | |
| 3239 | =item stat() on unopened filehandle %s |
| 3240 | |
| 3241 | (W unopened) You tried to use the stat() function on a filehandle that |
| 3242 | was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 3243 | |
| 3244 | =item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading %s |
| 3245 | |
| 3246 | (P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation |
| 3247 | stubs. Stubs should never be implicitly created, but explicit calls to |
| 3248 | C<can> may break this. |
| 3249 | |
| 3250 | =item Subroutine %s redefined |
| 3251 | |
| 3252 | (W redefine) You redefined a subroutine. To suppress this warning, say |
| 3253 | |
| 3254 | { |
| 3255 | no warnings; |
| 3256 | eval "sub name { ... }"; |
| 3257 | } |
| 3258 | |
| 3259 | =item Substitution loop |
| 3260 | |
| 3261 | (P) The substitution was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a substitution |
| 3262 | shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of input, which |
| 3263 | is what happened.) See the discussion of substitution in |
| 3264 | L<perlop/"Quote and Quote-like Operators">. |
| 3265 | |
| 3266 | =item Substitution pattern not terminated |
| 3267 | |
| 3268 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a s/// or s{}{} |
| 3269 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 3270 | Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. |
| 3271 | |
| 3272 | =item Substitution replacement not terminated |
| 3273 | |
| 3274 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a s/// or s{}{} |
| 3275 | construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. |
| 3276 | Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. |
| 3277 | |
| 3278 | =item substr outside of string |
| 3279 | |
| 3280 | (W substr),(F) You tried to reference a substr() that pointed outside of |
| 3281 | a string. That is, the absolute value of the offset was larger than the |
| 3282 | length of the string. See L<perlfunc/substr>. This warning is fatal if |
| 3283 | substr is used in an lvalue context (as the left hand side of an |
| 3284 | assignment or as a subroutine argument for example). |
| 3285 | |
| 3286 | =item suidperl is no longer needed since %s |
| 3287 | |
| 3288 | (F) Your Perl was compiled with B<-D>SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, but |
| 3289 | a version of the setuid emulator somehow got run anyway. |
| 3290 | |
| 3291 | =item Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches in regex; |
| 3292 | |
| 3293 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3294 | |
| 3295 | (F) A (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct can have at most two |
| 3296 | branches (the if-clause and the else-clause). If you want one or both to |
| 3297 | contain alternation, such as using C<this|that|other>, enclose it in |
| 3298 | clustering parentheses: |
| 3299 | |
| 3300 | (?(condition)(?:this|that|other)|else-clause) |
| 3301 | |
| 3302 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 3303 | discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3304 | |
| 3305 | =item Switch condition not recognized in regex; |
| 3306 | |
| 3307 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3308 | |
| 3309 | (F) If the argument to the (?(...)if-clause|else-clause) construct is a |
| 3310 | number, it can be only a number. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression |
| 3311 | about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3312 | |
| 3313 | =item switching effective %s is not implemented |
| 3314 | |
| 3315 | (F) While under the C<use filetest> pragma, we cannot switch the real |
| 3316 | and effective uids or gids. |
| 3317 | |
| 3318 | =item syntax error |
| 3319 | |
| 3320 | (F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include: |
| 3321 | |
| 3322 | A keyword is misspelled. |
| 3323 | A semicolon is missing. |
| 3324 | A comma is missing. |
| 3325 | An opening or closing parenthesis is missing. |
| 3326 | An opening or closing brace is missing. |
| 3327 | A closing quote is missing. |
| 3328 | |
| 3329 | Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax |
| 3330 | error giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on B<-w>.) |
| 3331 | The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when |
| 3332 | it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens |
| 3333 | before this, because Perl is good at understanding random input. |
| 3334 | Occasionally the line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon |
| 3335 | the only way to figure out what's triggering the error is to call |
| 3336 | C<perl -c> repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see |
| 3337 | if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20 |
| 3338 | questions>. |
| 3339 | |
| 3340 | =item syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected |
| 3341 | |
| 3342 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through the Bourne shell instead |
| 3343 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl |
| 3344 | yourself. |
| 3345 | |
| 3346 | =item syntax error in file %s at line %d, next 2 tokens "%s" |
| 3347 | |
| 3348 | (F) This error is likely to occur if you run a perl5 script through |
| 3349 | a perl4 interpreter, especially if the next 2 tokens are "use strict" |
| 3350 | or "my $var" or "our $var". |
| 3351 | |
| 3352 | =item %s syntax OK |
| 3353 | |
| 3354 | (F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> succeeds. |
| 3355 | |
| 3356 | =item System V %s is not implemented on this machine |
| 3357 | |
| 3358 | (F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", |
| 3359 | "shm", or "msg" but that System V IPC is not implemented in your |
| 3360 | machine. In some machines the functionality can exist but be |
| 3361 | unconfigured. Consult your system support. |
| 3362 | |
| 3363 | =item syswrite() on closed filehandle %s |
| 3364 | |
| 3365 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 3366 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 3367 | |
| 3368 | =item Target of goto is too deeply nested |
| 3369 | |
| 3370 | (F) You tried to use C<goto> to reach a label that was too deeply nested |
| 3371 | for Perl to reach. Perl is doing you a favor by refusing. |
| 3372 | |
| 3373 | =item tell() on unopened filehandle |
| 3374 | |
| 3375 | (W unopened) You tried to use the tell() function on a filehandle that |
| 3376 | was either never opened or has since been closed. |
| 3377 | |
| 3378 | =item That use of $[ is unsupported |
| 3379 | |
| 3380 | (F) Assignment to C<$[> is now strictly circumscribed, and interpreted |
| 3381 | as a compiler directive. You may say only one of |
| 3382 | |
| 3383 | $[ = 0; |
| 3384 | $[ = 1; |
| 3385 | ... |
| 3386 | local $[ = 0; |
| 3387 | local $[ = 1; |
| 3388 | ... |
| 3389 | |
| 3390 | This is to prevent the problem of one module changing the array base out |
| 3391 | from under another module inadvertently. See L<perlvar/$[>. |
| 3392 | |
| 3393 | =item The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia |
| 3394 | |
| 3395 | (F) Configure couldn't find the crypt() function on your machine, |
| 3396 | probably because your vendor didn't supply it, probably because they |
| 3397 | think the U.S. Government thinks it's a secret, or at least that they |
| 3398 | will continue to pretend that it is. And if you quote me on that, I |
| 3399 | will deny it. |
| 3400 | |
| 3401 | =item The %s function is unimplemented |
| 3402 | |
| 3403 | The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according |
| 3404 | to the probings of Configure. |
| 3405 | |
| 3406 | =item The stat preceding %s wasn't an lstat |
| 3407 | |
| 3408 | (F) It makes no sense to test the current stat buffer for symbolic |
| 3409 | linkhood if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer already went |
| 3410 | past the symlink to get to the real file. Use an actual filename |
| 3411 | instead. |
| 3412 | |
| 3413 | =item This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s) |
| 3414 | |
| 3415 | =item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s) |
| 3416 | |
| 3417 | (W internal) Warnings peculiar to VMS. You tried to change or delete an |
| 3418 | element of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl |
| 3419 | wasn't built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function. You'll |
| 3420 | need to rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine |
| 3421 | F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the |
| 3422 | target of the change to |
| 3423 | %ENV which produced the warning. |
| 3424 | |
| 3425 | =item times not implemented |
| 3426 | |
| 3427 | (F) Your version of the C library apparently doesn't do times(). I |
| 3428 | suspect you're not running on Unix. |
| 3429 | |
| 3430 | =item Too few args to syscall |
| 3431 | |
| 3432 | (F) There has to be at least one argument to syscall() to specify the |
| 3433 | system call to call, silly dilly. |
| 3434 | |
| 3435 | =item Too late for "B<-T>" option |
| 3436 | |
| 3437 | (X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the |
| 3438 | B<-T> option, but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its command line. |
| 3439 | This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in a |
| 3440 | script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the environment. |
| 3441 | So Perl gives up. |
| 3442 | |
| 3443 | If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #! |
| 3444 | mechanism (or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed by |
| 3445 | editing the #! line so that the B<-T> option is a part of Perl's first |
| 3446 | argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -T> to C<perl -T -n>. |
| 3447 | |
| 3448 | If the Perl script is being executed as C<perl scriptname>, then the |
| 3449 | B<-T> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -T scriptname>. |
| 3450 | |
| 3451 | =item Too late for "-%s" option |
| 3452 | |
| 3453 | (X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the |
| 3454 | B<-M> or B<-m> option. This is an error because B<-M> and B<-m> options |
| 3455 | are not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead. |
| 3456 | |
| 3457 | =item Too late to run %s block |
| 3458 | |
| 3459 | (W void) A CHECK or INIT block is being defined during run time proper, |
| 3460 | when the opportunity to run them has already passed. Perhaps you are |
| 3461 | loading a file with C<require> or C<do> when you should be using C<use> |
| 3462 | instead. Or perhaps you should put the C<require> or C<do> inside a |
| 3463 | BEGIN block. |
| 3464 | |
| 3465 | =item Too many args to syscall |
| 3466 | |
| 3467 | (F) Perl supports a maximum of only 14 args to syscall(). |
| 3468 | |
| 3469 | =item Too many arguments for %s |
| 3470 | |
| 3471 | (F) The function requires fewer arguments than you specified. |
| 3472 | |
| 3473 | =item Too many )'s |
| 3474 | |
| 3475 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 3476 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 3477 | |
| 3478 | =item Too many ('s |
| 3479 | |
| 3480 | =item Trailing \ in regex m/%s/ |
| 3481 | |
| 3482 | (F) The regular expression ends with an unbackslashed backslash. |
| 3483 | Backslash it. See L<perlre>. |
| 3484 | |
| 3485 | =item Transliteration pattern not terminated |
| 3486 | |
| 3487 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][] |
| 3488 | or y/// or y[][] construct. Missing the leading C<$> from variables |
| 3489 | C<$tr> or C<$y> may cause this error. |
| 3490 | |
| 3491 | =item Transliteration replacement not terminated |
| 3492 | |
| 3493 | (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][] |
| 3494 | construct. |
| 3495 | |
| 3496 | =item truncate not implemented |
| 3497 | |
| 3498 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement a file truncation mechanism that |
| 3499 | Configure knows about. |
| 3500 | |
| 3501 | =item Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not %s) |
| 3502 | |
| 3503 | (F) This function requires the argument in that position to be of a |
| 3504 | certain type. Arrays must be @NAME or C<@{EXPR}>. Hashes must be |
| 3505 | %NAME or C<%{EXPR}>. No implicit dereferencing is allowed--use the |
| 3506 | {EXPR} forms as an explicit dereference. See L<perlref>. |
| 3507 | |
| 3508 | =item umask not implemented |
| 3509 | |
| 3510 | (F) Your machine doesn't implement the umask function and you tried to |
| 3511 | use it to restrict permissions for yourself (EXPR & 0700). |
| 3512 | |
| 3513 | =item Unable to create sub named "%s" |
| 3514 | |
| 3515 | (F) You attempted to create or access a subroutine with an illegal name. |
| 3516 | |
| 3517 | =item Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs |
| 3518 | |
| 3519 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 3520 | many execution contexts were entered and left. |
| 3521 | |
| 3522 | =item Unbalanced saves: %d more saves than restores |
| 3523 | |
| 3524 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 3525 | many values were temporarily localized. |
| 3526 | |
| 3527 | =item Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs |
| 3528 | |
| 3529 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 3530 | many blocks were entered and left. |
| 3531 | |
| 3532 | =item Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees |
| 3533 | |
| 3534 | (W internal) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency in how |
| 3535 | many mortal scalars were allocated and freed. |
| 3536 | |
| 3537 | =item Undefined format "%s" called |
| 3538 | |
| 3539 | (F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps it's really in |
| 3540 | another package? See L<perlform>. |
| 3541 | |
| 3542 | =item Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called |
| 3543 | |
| 3544 | (F) The sort comparison routine specified doesn't seem to exist. |
| 3545 | Perhaps it's in a different package? See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 3546 | |
| 3547 | =item Undefined subroutine &%s called |
| 3548 | |
| 3549 | (F) The subroutine indicated hasn't been defined, or if it was, it has |
| 3550 | since been undefined. |
| 3551 | |
| 3552 | =item Undefined subroutine called |
| 3553 | |
| 3554 | (F) The anonymous subroutine you're trying to call hasn't been defined, |
| 3555 | or if it was, it has since been undefined. |
| 3556 | |
| 3557 | =item Undefined subroutine in sort |
| 3558 | |
| 3559 | (F) The sort comparison routine specified is declared but doesn't seem |
| 3560 | to have been defined yet. See L<perlfunc/sort>. |
| 3561 | |
| 3562 | =item Undefined top format "%s" called |
| 3563 | |
| 3564 | (F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps it's really in |
| 3565 | another package? See L<perlform>. |
| 3566 | |
| 3567 | =item Undefined value assigned to typeglob |
| 3568 | |
| 3569 | (W misc) An undefined value was assigned to a typeglob, a la |
| 3570 | C<*foo = undef>. This does nothing. It's possible that you really mean |
| 3571 | C<undef *foo>. |
| 3572 | |
| 3573 | =item %s: Undefined variable |
| 3574 | |
| 3575 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead of Perl. |
| 3576 | Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. |
| 3577 | |
| 3578 | =item unexec of %s into %s failed! |
| 3579 | |
| 3580 | (F) The unexec() routine failed for some reason. See your local FSF |
| 3581 | representative, who probably put it there in the first place. |
| 3582 | |
| 3583 | |
| 3584 | =item Unknown BYTEORDER |
| 3585 | |
| 3586 | (F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte |
| 3587 | order. |
| 3588 | |
| 3589 | =item Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s) |
| 3590 | |
| 3591 | You tried to use an unknown subpragma of the "re" pragma. |
| 3592 | |
| 3593 | =item Unknown switch condition (?(%.2s in regex; |
| 3594 | |
| 3595 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3596 | |
| 3597 | (F) The condition part of a (?(condition)if-clause|else-clause) construct |
| 3598 | is not known. The condition may be lookahead or lookbehind (the condition |
| 3599 | is true if the lookahead or lookbehind is true), a (?{...}) construct (the |
| 3600 | condition is true if the code evaluates to a true value), or a number (the |
| 3601 | condition is true if the set of capturing parentheses named by the number |
| 3602 | matched). |
| 3603 | |
| 3604 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem was |
| 3605 | discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3606 | |
| 3607 | =item Unknown open() mode '%s' |
| 3608 | |
| 3609 | (F) The second argument of 3-argument open() is not among the list |
| 3610 | of valid modes: C<< < >>, C<< > >>, C<<< >> >>>, C<< +< >>, |
| 3611 | C<< +> >>, C<<< +>> >>>, C<-|>, C<|->. |
| 3612 | |
| 3613 | =item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s |
| 3614 | |
| 3615 | (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl was reading values for %ENV before |
| 3616 | iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of |
| 3617 | data Perl expected. Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to |
| 3618 | subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes. |
| 3619 | |
| 3620 | =item unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3621 | |
| 3622 | (F) The brackets around a character class must match. If you wish to |
| 3623 | include a closing bracket in a character class, backslash it or put it |
| 3624 | first. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the problem |
| 3625 | was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3626 | |
| 3627 | =item unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3628 | |
| 3629 | (F) Unbackslashed parentheses must always be balanced in regular |
| 3630 | expressions. If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for finding the |
| 3631 | matching parenthesis. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3632 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3633 | |
| 3634 | =item Unmatched right %s bracket |
| 3635 | |
| 3636 | (F) The lexer counted more closing curly or square brackets than opening |
| 3637 | ones, so you're probably missing a matching opening bracket. As a |
| 3638 | general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place |
| 3639 | you were last editing. |
| 3640 | |
| 3641 | =item Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word |
| 3642 | |
| 3643 | (W reserved) You used a bareword that might someday be claimed as a |
| 3644 | reserved word. It's best to put such a word in quotes, or capitalize it |
| 3645 | somehow, or insert an underbar into it. You might also declare it as a |
| 3646 | subroutine. |
| 3647 | |
| 3648 | =item Unrecognized character %s |
| 3649 | |
| 3650 | (F) The Perl parser has no idea what to do with the specified character |
| 3651 | in your Perl script (or eval). Perhaps you tried to run a compressed |
| 3652 | script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program. |
| 3653 | |
| 3654 | =item /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through |
| 3655 | |
| 3656 | (W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 3657 | recognized by Perl inside character classes. The character was |
| 3658 | understood literally. |
| 3659 | |
| 3660 | =item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through in regex; |
| 3661 | |
| 3662 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3663 | |
| 3664 | (W regexp) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 3665 | recognized by Perl. This combination appears in an interpolated variable or |
| 3666 | a C<'>-delimited regular expression. The character was understood |
| 3667 | literally. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about where the |
| 3668 | escape was discovered. |
| 3669 | |
| 3670 | =item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through |
| 3671 | |
| 3672 | (W misc) You used a backslash-character combination which is not |
| 3673 | recognized by Perl. |
| 3674 | |
| 3675 | =item Unrecognized signal name "%s" |
| 3676 | |
| 3677 | (F) You specified a signal name to the kill() function that was not |
| 3678 | recognized. Say C<kill -l> in your shell to see the valid signal names |
| 3679 | on your system. |
| 3680 | |
| 3681 | =item Unrecognized switch: -%s (-h will show valid options) |
| 3682 | |
| 3683 | (F) You specified an illegal option to Perl. Don't do that. (If you |
| 3684 | think you didn't do that, check the #! line to see if it's supplying the |
| 3685 | bad switch on your behalf.) |
| 3686 | |
| 3687 | =item Unsuccessful %s on filename containing newline |
| 3688 | |
| 3689 | (W newline) A file operation was attempted on a filename, and that |
| 3690 | operation failed, PROBABLY because the filename contained a newline, |
| 3691 | PROBABLY because you forgot to chomp() it off. See L<perlfunc/chomp>. |
| 3692 | |
| 3693 | =item Unsupported directory function "%s" called |
| 3694 | |
| 3695 | (F) Your machine doesn't support opendir() and readdir(). |
| 3696 | |
| 3697 | =item Unsupported function %s |
| 3698 | |
| 3699 | (F) This machine doesn't implement the indicated function, apparently. |
| 3700 | At least, Configure doesn't think so. |
| 3701 | |
| 3702 | =item Unsupported function fork |
| 3703 | |
| 3704 | (F) Your version of executable does not support forking. |
| 3705 | |
| 3706 | Note that under some systems, like OS/2, there may be different flavors |
| 3707 | of Perl executables, some of which may support fork, some not. Try |
| 3708 | changing the name you call Perl by to C<perl_>, C<perl__>, and so on. |
| 3709 | |
| 3710 | =item Unsupported script encoding |
| 3711 | |
| 3712 | (F) Your program file begins with a Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM) which |
| 3713 | declares it to be in a Unicode encoding that Perl cannot yet read. |
| 3714 | |
| 3715 | =item Unsupported socket function "%s" called |
| 3716 | |
| 3717 | (F) Your machine doesn't support the Berkeley socket mechanism, or at |
| 3718 | least that's what Configure thought. |
| 3719 | |
| 3720 | =item Unterminated attribute list |
| 3721 | |
| 3722 | (F) The lexer found something other than a simple identifier at the |
| 3723 | start of an attribute, and it wasn't a semicolon or the start of a |
| 3724 | block. Perhaps you terminated the parameter list of the previous |
| 3725 | attribute too soon. See L<attributes>. |
| 3726 | |
| 3727 | =item Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list |
| 3728 | |
| 3729 | (F) The lexer saw an opening (left) parenthesis character while parsing |
| 3730 | an attribute list, but the matching closing (right) parenthesis |
| 3731 | character was not found. You may need to add (or remove) a backslash |
| 3732 | character to get your parentheses to balance. See L<attributes>. |
| 3733 | |
| 3734 | =item Unterminated compressed integer |
| 3735 | |
| 3736 | (F) An argument to unpack("w",...) was incompatible with the BER |
| 3737 | compressed integer format and could not be converted to an integer. |
| 3738 | See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 3739 | |
| 3740 | =item Unterminated <> operator |
| 3741 | |
| 3742 | (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting |
| 3743 | a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and |
| 3744 | not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out |
| 3745 | earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". |
| 3746 | |
| 3747 | =item untie attempted while %d inner references still exist |
| 3748 | |
| 3749 | (W untie) A copy of the object returned from C<tie> (or C<tied>) was |
| 3750 | still valid when C<untie> was called. |
| 3751 | |
| 3752 | =item Useless (?%s) - use /%s modifier in regex; |
| 3753 | |
| 3754 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3755 | |
| 3756 | (W regexp) You have used an internal modifier such as (?o) that has no |
| 3757 | meaning unless applied to the entire regexp: |
| 3758 | |
| 3759 | if ($string =~ /(?o)$pattern/) { ... } |
| 3760 | |
| 3761 | must be written as |
| 3762 | |
| 3763 | if ($string =~ /$pattern/o) { ... } |
| 3764 | |
| 3765 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3766 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3767 | |
| 3768 | =item Useless (?-%s) - don't use /%s modifier in regex; |
| 3769 | |
| 3770 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 3771 | |
| 3772 | (W regexp) You have used an internal modifier such as (?-o) that has no |
| 3773 | meaning unless removed from the entire regexp: |
| 3774 | |
| 3775 | if ($string =~ /(?-o)$pattern/o) { ... } |
| 3776 | |
| 3777 | must be written as |
| 3778 | |
| 3779 | if ($string =~ /$pattern/) { ... } |
| 3780 | |
| 3781 | The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 3782 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 3783 | |
| 3784 | =item Useless use of %s in void context |
| 3785 | |
| 3786 | (W void) You did something without a side effect in a context that does |
| 3787 | nothing with the return value, such as a statement that doesn't return a |
| 3788 | value from a block, or the left side of a scalar comma operator. Very |
| 3789 | often this points not to stupidity on your part, but a failure of Perl |
| 3790 | to parse your program the way you thought it would. For example, you'd |
| 3791 | get this if you mixed up your C precedence with Python precedence and |
| 3792 | said |
| 3793 | |
| 3794 | $one, $two = 1, 2; |
| 3795 | |
| 3796 | when you meant to say |
| 3797 | |
| 3798 | ($one, $two) = (1, 2); |
| 3799 | |
| 3800 | Another common error is to use ordinary parentheses to construct a list |
| 3801 | reference when you should be using square or curly brackets, for |
| 3802 | example, if you say |
| 3803 | |
| 3804 | $array = (1,2); |
| 3805 | |
| 3806 | when you should have said |
| 3807 | |
| 3808 | $array = [1,2]; |
| 3809 | |
| 3810 | The square brackets explicitly turn a list value into a scalar value, |
| 3811 | while parentheses do not. So when a parenthesized list is evaluated in |
| 3812 | a scalar context, the comma is treated like C's comma operator, which |
| 3813 | throws away the left argument, which is not what you want. See |
| 3814 | L<perlref> for more on this. |
| 3815 | |
| 3816 | This warning will not be issued for numerical constants equal to 0 or 1 |
| 3817 | since they are often used in statements like |
| 3818 | |
| 3819 | 1 while sub_with_side_effects() ; |
| 3820 | |
| 3821 | String constants that would normally evaluate to 0 or 1 are warned |
| 3822 | about. |
| 3823 | |
| 3824 | =item Useless use of "re" pragma |
| 3825 | |
| 3826 | (W) You did C<use re;> without any arguments. That isn't very useful. |
| 3827 | |
| 3828 | =item Useless use of %s with no values |
| 3829 | |
| 3830 | (W syntax) You used the push() or unshift() function with no arguments |
| 3831 | apart from the array, like C<push(@x)> or C<unshift(@foo)>. That won't |
| 3832 | usually have any effect on the array, so is completely useless. It's |
| 3833 | possible in principle that push(@tied_array) could have some effect |
| 3834 | if the array is tied to a class which implements a PUSH method. If so, |
| 3835 | you can write it as C<push(@tied_array,())> to avoid this warning. |
| 3836 | |
| 3837 | =item "use" not allowed in expression |
| 3838 | |
| 3839 | (F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and |
| 3840 | returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>. |
| 3841 | |
| 3842 | =item Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated |
| 3843 | |
| 3844 | (D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted form |
| 3845 | if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document. |
| 3846 | |
| 3847 | =item Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated |
| 3848 | |
| 3849 | (D deprecated) It makes a lot of work for the compiler when you clobber |
| 3850 | a subroutine's argument list, so it's better if you assign the results |
| 3851 | of a split() explicitly to an array (or list). |
| 3852 | |
| 3853 | =item Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated |
| 3854 | |
| 3855 | (D deprecated) As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> subroutines |
| 3856 | are looked up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy) even when the |
| 3857 | subroutines to be autoloaded were called as plain functions (e.g. |
| 3858 | C<Foo::bar()>), not as methods (e.g. C<< Foo->bar() >> or C<< |
| 3859 | $obj->bar() >>). |
| 3860 | |
| 3861 | This bug will be rectified in future by using method lookup only for |
| 3862 | methods' C<AUTOLOAD>s. However, there is a significant base of existing |
| 3863 | code that may be using the old behavior. So, as an interim step, Perl |
| 3864 | currently issues an optional warning when non-methods use inherited |
| 3865 | C<AUTOLOAD>s. |
| 3866 | |
| 3867 | The simple rule is: Inheritance will not work when autoloading |
| 3868 | non-methods. The simple fix for old code is: In any module that used |
| 3869 | to depend on inheriting C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods from a base class |
| 3870 | named C<BaseClass>, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during |
| 3871 | startup. |
| 3872 | |
| 3873 | In code that currently says C<use AutoLoader; @ISA = qw(AutoLoader);> |
| 3874 | you should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C<use AutoLoader;> to |
| 3875 | C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';>. |
| 3876 | |
| 3877 | =item Use of "package" with no arguments is deprecated |
| 3878 | |
| 3879 | (D deprecated) You used the C<package> keyword without specifying a package |
| 3880 | name. So no namespace is current at all. Using this can cause many |
| 3881 | otherwise reasonable constructs to fail in baffling ways. C<use strict;> |
| 3882 | instead. |
| 3883 | |
| 3884 | =item Use of %s in printf format not supported |
| 3885 | |
| 3886 | (F) You attempted to use a feature of printf that is accessible from |
| 3887 | only C. This usually means there's a better way to do it in Perl. |
| 3888 | |
| 3889 | =item Use of $* is deprecated |
| 3890 | |
| 3891 | (D deprecated) This variable magically turned on multi-line pattern |
| 3892 | matching, both for you and for any luckless subroutine that you happen |
| 3893 | to call. You should use the new C<//m> and C<//s> modifiers now to do |
| 3894 | that without the dangerous action-at-a-distance effects of C<$*>. |
| 3895 | |
| 3896 | =item Use of %s is deprecated |
| 3897 | |
| 3898 | (D deprecated) The construct indicated is no longer recommended for use, |
| 3899 | generally because there's a better way to do it, and also because the |
| 3900 | old way has bad side effects. |
| 3901 | |
| 3902 | =item Use of $# is deprecated |
| 3903 | |
| 3904 | (D deprecated) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a poorly |
| 3905 | defined B<awk> feature. Use an explicit printf() or sprintf() instead. |
| 3906 | |
| 3907 | =item Use of reference "%s" as array index |
| 3908 | |
| 3909 | (W) You tried to use a reference as an array index; this probably |
| 3910 | isn't what you mean, because references in numerical context tend |
| 3911 | to be huge numbers, and so usually indicates programmer error. |
| 3912 | |
| 3913 | If you really do mean it, explicitly numify your reference, like so: |
| 3914 | C<$array[0+$ref]>. This warning is not given for overloaded objects, |
| 3915 | either, because you can overload the numification and stringification |
| 3916 | operators and then you assumedly know what you are doing. |
| 3917 | |
| 3918 | =item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated |
| 3919 | |
| 3920 | (D deprecated) The indicated bareword is a reserved word. Future |
| 3921 | versions of perl may use it as a keyword, so you're better off either |
| 3922 | explicitly quoting the word in a manner appropriate for its context of |
| 3923 | use, or using a different name altogether. The warning can be |
| 3924 | suppressed for subroutine names by either adding a C<&> prefix, or using |
| 3925 | a package qualifier, e.g. C<&our()>, or C<Foo::our()>. |
| 3926 | |
| 3927 | =item Use of uninitialized value%s |
| 3928 | |
| 3929 | (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already |
| 3930 | defined. It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. |
| 3931 | To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables. |
| 3932 | |
| 3933 | To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation |
| 3934 | you used the undefined value in. Note, however, that perl optimizes your |
| 3935 | program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily |
| 3936 | appear literally in your program. For example, C<"that $foo"> is |
| 3937 | usually optimized into C<"that " . $foo>, and the warning will refer to |
| 3938 | the C<concatenation (.)> operator, even though there is no C<.> in your |
| 3939 | program. |
| 3940 | |
| 3941 | =item Using a hash as a reference is deprecated |
| 3942 | |
| 3943 | (D deprecated) You tried to use a hash as a reference, as in |
| 3944 | C<< %foo->{"bar"} >> or C<< %$ref->{"hello"} >>. Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 |
| 3945 | used to allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will |
| 3946 | be removed in a future version. |
| 3947 | |
| 3948 | =item Using an array as a reference is deprecated |
| 3949 | |
| 3950 | (D deprecated) You tried to use an array as a reference, as in |
| 3951 | C<< @foo->[23] >> or C<< @$ref->[99] >>. Versions of perl <= 5.6.1 used to |
| 3952 | allow this syntax, but shouldn't have. It is now deprecated, and will be |
| 3953 | removed in a future version. |
| 3954 | |
| 3955 | =item Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined() |
| 3956 | |
| 3957 | (W misc) In a conditional expression, you used <HANDLE>, <*> (glob), |
| 3958 | C<each()>, or C<readdir()> as a boolean value. Each of these constructs |
| 3959 | can return a value of "0"; that would make the conditional expression |
| 3960 | false, which is probably not what you intended. When using these |
| 3961 | constructs in conditional expressions, test their values with the |
| 3962 | C<defined> operator. |
| 3963 | |
| 3964 | =item Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long |
| 3965 | |
| 3966 | (W misc) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the value of an |
| 3967 | %ENV element from a CLI symbol table, and found a resultant string |
| 3968 | longer than 1024 characters. The return value has been truncated to |
| 3969 | 1024 characters. |
| 3970 | |
| 3971 | =item Variable "%s" is not imported%s |
| 3972 | |
| 3973 | (F) While "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable that |
| 3974 | you apparently thought was imported from another module, because |
| 3975 | something else of the same name (usually a subroutine) is exported by |
| 3976 | that module. It usually means you put the wrong funny character on the |
| 3977 | front of your variable. |
| 3978 | |
| 3979 | =item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s |
| 3980 | |
| 3981 | (W misc) A "my" or "our" variable has been redeclared in the current |
| 3982 | scope or statement, effectively eliminating all access to the previous |
| 3983 | instance. This is almost always a typographical error. Note that the |
| 3984 | earlier variable will still exist until the end of the scope or until |
| 3985 | all closure referents to it are destroyed. |
| 3986 | |
| 3987 | =item Variable "%s" may be unavailable |
| 3988 | |
| 3989 | (W closure) An inner (nested) I<anonymous> subroutine is inside a |
| 3990 | I<named> subroutine, and outside that is another subroutine; and the |
| 3991 | anonymous (innermost) subroutine is referencing a lexical variable |
| 3992 | defined in the outermost subroutine. For example: |
| 3993 | |
| 3994 | sub outermost { my $a; sub middle { sub { $a } } } |
| 3995 | |
| 3996 | If the anonymous subroutine is called or referenced (directly or |
| 3997 | indirectly) from the outermost subroutine, it will share the variable as |
| 3998 | you would expect. But if the anonymous subroutine is called or |
| 3999 | referenced when the outermost subroutine is not active, it will see the |
| 4000 | value of the shared variable as it was before and during the *first* |
| 4001 | call to the outermost subroutine, which is probably not what you want. |
| 4002 | |
| 4003 | In these circumstances, it is usually best to make the middle subroutine |
| 4004 | anonymous, using the C<sub {}> syntax. Perl has specific support for |
| 4005 | shared variables in nested anonymous subroutines; a named subroutine in |
| 4006 | between interferes with this feature. |
| 4007 | |
| 4008 | =item Variable syntax |
| 4009 | |
| 4010 | (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<csh> instead |
| 4011 | of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into |
| 4012 | Perl yourself. |
| 4013 | |
| 4014 | =item Variable "%s" will not stay shared |
| 4015 | |
| 4016 | (W closure) An inner (nested) I<named> subroutine is referencing a |
| 4017 | lexical variable defined in an outer subroutine. |
| 4018 | |
| 4019 | When the inner subroutine is called, it will probably see the value of |
| 4020 | the outer subroutine's variable as it was before and during the *first* |
| 4021 | call to the outer subroutine; in this case, after the first call to the |
| 4022 | outer subroutine is complete, the inner and outer subroutines will no |
| 4023 | longer share a common value for the variable. In other words, the |
| 4024 | variable will no longer be shared. |
| 4025 | |
| 4026 | Furthermore, if the outer subroutine is anonymous and references a |
| 4027 | lexical variable outside itself, then the outer and inner subroutines |
| 4028 | will I<never> share the given variable. |
| 4029 | |
| 4030 | This problem can usually be solved by making the inner subroutine |
| 4031 | anonymous, using the C<sub {}> syntax. When inner anonymous subs that |
| 4032 | reference variables in outer subroutines are called or referenced, they |
| 4033 | are automatically rebound to the current values of such variables. |
| 4034 | |
| 4035 | =item Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex; |
| 4036 | |
| 4037 | marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/ |
| 4038 | |
| 4039 | (F) Lookbehind is allowed only for subexpressions whose length is fixed and |
| 4040 | known at compile time. The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about |
| 4041 | where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>. |
| 4042 | |
| 4043 | =item Version number must be a constant number |
| 4044 | |
| 4045 | (P) The attempt to translate a C<use Module n.n LIST> statement into |
| 4046 | its equivalent C<BEGIN> block found an internal inconsistency with |
| 4047 | the version number. |
| 4048 | |
| 4049 | =item Warning: something's wrong |
| 4050 | |
| 4051 | (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or |
| 4052 | you called it with no args and C<$_> was empty. |
| 4053 | |
| 4054 | =item Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly |
| 4055 | |
| 4056 | (S) The implicit close() done by an open() got an error indication on |
| 4057 | the close(). This usually indicates your file system ran out of disk |
| 4058 | space. |
| 4059 | |
| 4060 | =item Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous |
| 4061 | |
| 4062 | (S ambiguous) You wrote a unary operator followed by something that |
| 4063 | looks like a binary operator that could also have been interpreted as a |
| 4064 | term or unary operator. For instance, if you know that the rand |
| 4065 | function has a default argument of 1.0, and you write |
| 4066 | |
| 4067 | rand + 5; |
| 4068 | |
| 4069 | you may THINK you wrote the same thing as |
| 4070 | |
| 4071 | rand() + 5; |
| 4072 | |
| 4073 | but in actual fact, you got |
| 4074 | |
| 4075 | rand(+5); |
| 4076 | |
| 4077 | So put in parentheses to say what you really mean. |
| 4078 | |
| 4079 | =item Wide character in %s |
| 4080 | |
| 4081 | (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting one. |
| 4082 | |
| 4083 | =item write() on closed filehandle %s |
| 4084 | |
| 4085 | (W closed) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime |
| 4086 | before now. Check your control flow. |
| 4087 | |
| 4088 | =item X outside of string |
| 4089 | |
| 4090 | (F) You had a pack template that specified a relative position before |
| 4091 | the beginning of the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 4092 | |
| 4093 | =item x outside of string |
| 4094 | |
| 4095 | (F) You had a pack template that specified a relative position after |
| 4096 | the end of the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>. |
| 4097 | |
| 4098 | =item Xsub "%s" called in sort |
| 4099 | |
| 4100 | (F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort comparison is not yet |
| 4101 | supported. |
| 4102 | |
| 4103 | =item Xsub called in sort |
| 4104 | |
| 4105 | (F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort comparison is not yet |
| 4106 | supported. |
| 4107 | |
| 4108 | =item You can't use C<-l> on a filehandle |
| 4109 | |
| 4110 | (F) A filehandle represents an opened file, and when you opened the file |
| 4111 | it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for. |
| 4112 | Use a filename instead. |
| 4113 | |
| 4114 | =item YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET! |
| 4115 | |
| 4116 | (F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the |
| 4117 | sources to your kernel, and your vendor probably doesn't give a rip |
| 4118 | about what you want. Your best bet is to put a setuid C wrapper around |
| 4119 | your script. |
| 4120 | |
| 4121 | =item You need to quote "%s" |
| 4122 | |
| 4123 | (W syntax) You assigned a bareword as a signal handler name. |
| 4124 | Unfortunately, you already have a subroutine of that name declared, |
| 4125 | which means that Perl 5 will try to call the subroutine when the |
| 4126 | assignment is executed, which is probably not what you want. (If it IS |
| 4127 | what you want, put an & in front.) |
| 4128 | |
| 4129 | =back |
| 4130 | |
| 4131 | =cut |