Hello eddiemo,
You have forgotten to close parenthesis when you store your attributes (see below):
$ perl test.pl
syntax error at test.pl line 17, near "get_date;"
Execution of test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
After adding the parenthesis it works :) (see below):
$ perl test.pl
Hello World!
START ing script test.pl
SA - YEAR: 2019, MONTH: 5, DAY: 77
END ing script test.pl
Sample of code for replication after modifications:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $year = 2019;
my $month = 5;
my $day = 19;
print "Hello World!\n";
print"\n\t START ing script $0\n";
sub get_date {
my ($y, $m, $d) = (9999, 888, 77);
return($y, $m, $d);
} # end get_date
($year, $month, $day) = get_date;
print "SA - YEAR: $year, MONTH: $month, DAY: $day\n";
print "\n\t\t END ing script $0\n";
I assume the goal is to pass some parameters to the function. I would recommend to start reading here perlsub. If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask again.
Hope this helps, BR.
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