Greetings A friend, now deceased, wrote a perl variant of the venerable 'cal' program so that I could have a calendar with week numbers AND be able to see some 5 years of calendar easily - - - all at once!! Except now (I only use this gift occasionally) when I tried to execute the program - - - well - - - its barfing! See first the part of the code in question:

foreach my $arg (@ARGV) {
    if( $arg =~ /^-B(\d+)$/ ) {  # months Before
    $before = $1;
    } elsif( $arg =~ /^-B$/ ) {
    $before = shift( @ARGV );
    if( $before !~ /^\d+/ ) {
        die "Bad before argument ($before)\n";
    }
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and the resultant (when I try to run the program)

/$ /usr/local/bin/cal2.pl -B 4
Uncaught exception from user code:
    Bad before argument (-B)
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This were good in 5.34. I tried looking in the release notes for changes and (well - - - I'm no programmer - - - sorry) I can't spot anything that would be relevant to my issue. TIA

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