[Pdx-pm] weak references (?) problem

[Thomas Keller]

Greetings,
I have an excel parser script using Spreadsheet::Read (calls  
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel which is installed and up to date) that works  
fine on my machine running 5.10.0, but on an older machine running  
5.8.8 I get the following error:
"Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl at / 
Library/Perl/5.8.8/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/Worksheet.pm line 23"

The line in the script that creates the $ref is:
my $ref = ReadData ("${source}/${filename}");

$ref is defined in main, and then used in a subroutine. Is this how a  
weak reference gets created? But I thought perl 5.8.8 would handle  
this anyway. I'm perplexed.

Thanks for any suggestions.

cheers,

Tom
kellert at ohsu.edu
503-494-2442







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