$name = "world"; 
$name = uc($name); 
print $name;
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$name = "world";
print uc($name);
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You should assign the result of uc(...) to another variable.

$name = "world";
$uc_name = uc($name);
print $uc_name,$/;
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if you want to change the case of the current variable, you could use tr.

$name = "world";
$name =~ tr/[a-z]/[A-Z]/;
print $name, $/;
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hiseldl
"Act better than you feel"

Hi!

The error is not in the three lines you posted. However, as the error occurs in line 9 of your script, according to the error message, there must be more than these 3 lines. I'm confident that the actual error is somewhere above line 9. It's just that the parser doesn't give up until it realizes theres no possible way to tokenize your input. And it's not until line 9 that it realizes that it's a dead end road it's travelling. ;)

Show us the other 6 lines. I'm quite sure it's a missing semicolon, paren, brace or quote character somewhere above line 9.

So long,
Flexx

--dda

syntax error in file cc1.pl at line 9, next 2 tokens "uc(" Execution of cc1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

What version of perl do you use (run 'perl -v' to see it).
Also, how do you run your code (e.g. perl cc1.pl or ./cc1.pl)?

--dda