Newbie needs help to find bug in his first Perl program

Sun Mar 25 13:00:22 EST 2001

Ron Stephens wrote:

> sixtwo = raw_input ("where does %s rank for %y ?" % (option6,
> criteria2))

There is no format specifier for %y.

> Can anyone see what is wrong with this? I have several lines like this
> and they all give me error messages.

In future it would be more useful if you actually stated _what_ error
message you are getting.

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