Hi i am facing very weired problem in oerl ...My code is having lots of switch statements which are perfectly correct by syntax...The code runs properly ..But when i have inserted printf statements in code somewhere which has nothing to do with the switch case statements i have written,still it gives the above error(in subject line)..If i remove print statements,sometimes it runs properly and sometimes not...I am not knowing what the hell is happeneing?Plz suggest some solution..

Maybe you could post the actual code so people could see what is going on?

use Switch;
switch($FrameX_rand_range_value)
{
case 0 {$FRAME_X_cor = int(rand(1000));}
case 1 {$FRAME_X_cor = 0;}
case 2 {$FRAME_X_cor = $FrameX_MIN;}

}

printf BGND_INFO ("FRAME_X_cor = $FRAME_X_cor");





switch($FrameY_rand_range_value)
{
case 0 {$FRAME_Y_cor = int(rand(1000));}
#case 1 {$FRAME_Y_cor = writeti::randfromrange();}//Asifs fun wil be called
case 2 {$FRAME_Y_cor = $FrameY_MIN;}
}
#endcase


printf BGND_INFO ("FRAME_Y_cor = $FRAME_Y_cor\n");

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#----------------------Extract everything required for background-----------
my $Frame_Name =${$frameInfo->{frameRef}}[$frameIndex][0];
printf BGND_INFO ("\$Frame_Name = $Frame_Name\n");

my $Bgnd_Name =${$frameInfo->{frameRef}}[$frameIndex][1];
printf BGND_INFO ("\$Bgnd_Name = $Bgnd_Name\n");

my $Bgnd_Index =${$frameInfo->{frameRef}}[$frameIndex][2];
printf BGND_INFO ("\$Bgnd_Index = $Bgnd_Index\n");

my $Total_MBs_defined_for_frame = ${$frameInfo->{frameRef}}[$frameIndex][3];
printf BGND_INFO ("\$Total_MBs_defined_for_frame = $Total_MBs_defined_for_frame\n");



Sorry actually i cant paste full code here as its confidential...but this is how my code is...I am not getting the exact problem for the "error"

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <PROGRAMMING> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

As per this page: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/printf.html, I think you need print, not printf. You're not using a format list.