help with perl code

[mike]

hi
i have written some perl code like this

$telnetcmd << "EOF";
perl -ne "chdir(/tmp); while ($file = <*.txt>) { print stat($file); }"
EOF
print $telnetcmd;

it give me some errors:

syntax error at ./test.pl line 3, near "-ne"
Semicolon seems to be missing at ./test.pl line 3.
Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
what is wrong with the code...?? thanks

[nobull]

s9************@yahoo.com (mike) wrote in message news:<df**************************@posting.google. com>...

$telnetcmd << "EOF";
perl -ne "chdir(/tmp); while ($file = <*.txt>) { print stat($file); }"
EOF
print $telnetcmd;

it give me some errors:

syntax error at ./test.pl line 3, near "-ne"
Semicolon seems to be missing at ./test.pl line 3.
Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
what is wrong with the code...?? thanks

You meant:

$telnetcmd = << "EOF";

Actually I suspect you didn't what $file interpolated so you meant:

$telnetcmd = << 'EOF';

Actually, come to think of it, if you don't like wasting your time
hunting down obscure bugs, you probably should have said:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $telnetcmd = << 'EOF';

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