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website errata isn't for this book

The errata you show doesn't go with this book. I have the November 1993 First Printing of the First Edition (9781565920422) and neither the confirmed nor unconfirmed errata match up with anything in the book (some even reference pages higher than the 274 this book has).


However you do have the correct errata available through the "Download Example Code" link. The file "ERRATA.nov93" at http://examples.oreilly.com/9781565920422/ has the actual errata for this book.


I also found an errata for the errata :-) In ERRATA.nov93 it says "11" in two places, both should be "ll"; the book is correctly has 2 els in both spots but the errata uses 2 ones while correcting the case issue.


To recap, the errata in these two links does not apply to the ISBN found in the links.


http://oreilly.com/catalog/errata.csp?isbn=9781565920422


http://oreilly.com/catalog/errataunconfirmed.csp?isbn=9781565920422

 James Prescott  Jan 27, 2012 
Printed Page 158
last code example

The foreach loop uses a declared loop variable $filename, but the default variable $_
is used inside the loop. (Probably this was cut-and-pasted from the similar example
on p. 166 but the modification wasn't completely carried through)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 171
last code example

I beleive that there is a simple type in the code.

The code example has the first 2 lines:

my $dir_to_process = "/etc";
opendir DH, $dir or die "Cannot open $dir: $!";

Obviously, because I am reading the book I am just a beginner and may have missed
something, however I believe that the $dir_to_process scalar variable should just be
$dir (or change lines 2 and 4 to have the $dir variables renamed $dir_to_process).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 205
4th line

"unpolite" should be "impolite"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 246
Figure 17-2

Brackets should be braces.

 Brian Tkatch  Jun 28, 2011 
Printed Page 304
index

$$ should be in the index (it's introduced somewhat informally on p. 183)

 Anonymous