Having trouble printing HTML page

Nihil Angst has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I get the following error message when I try to run
the script below: "Your script produced this error:
Can't find string terminator "ENDHTML" anywhere
before EOF at ./HTML.cgi line 8. " What do I need
to do in order to make this script run?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.


require TripodCGI;
$CGI = TripodCGI;

$firstName = $CGI->param('firstName');
$lastName = $CGI->param('lastName');
$Age = $CGI->param('Age');
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<ENDHTML;
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>CGI Test</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<H2>Congratulations!</H2>

<P>We're glad to see you $firtName, members of the $lastName family ar
+e always welcome here. It's hard to believe that you're already $Age 
+years old. My how time flies.</P>

</BODY></HTML>

ENDHTML
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Re: Having trouble printing HTML page by Ovid (Cardinal) on Aug 15, 2002 at 19:00 UTC
One of the sneaky issues with HERE docs is that they require at least one line after the string terminator. Edit the file and hit 'Enter' after the final `ENDHTML`. That should take care of it. Cheers, Ovid Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply]
Re: Having trouble printing HTML page by derby (Abbot) on Aug 15, 2002 at 19:01 UTC
Is your closing ENDHTML preceeded by any white space? If it's not flush left, you will get the error message you describe. -derby	[reply]
Re: Having trouble printing HTML page by Nemp (Pilgrim) on Aug 15, 2002 at 19:03 UTC
I had a similar problem to this and it ended up being caused by the fact I had not pressed enter after the ENDHTML close of the here document. As far as I'm aware the "ENDHTML" needs to be on a line on its own with no whitespace and you need to have a new line character straight after it aswell HTH, Neil	[reply]
Re: Having trouble printing HTML page by krisahoch (Deacon) on Aug 15, 2002 at 20:42 UTC
Nihil Angst, I am in agreement with both Ovid, and derby. I would like to offer one suggestion though. The following HERE style is deprecated. `print <<ENDHTML; .... .... .... ENDHTML #Notice there is another line here before EOF, #and that ENDHTML is flush to the left` [download] You should use quotes around the ENDHTML section. `print << 'ENDHTML'; .... .... .... ENDHTML #Notice there is another line here before EOF, #and that ENDHTML is flush to the left` [download] In both examples there is an extra line before the EOF can be reached. Both examples also show ENDHTML is flush to the left most margin. Just my two cents - Kristofer	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Having trouble printing HTML page by vek (Prior) on Aug 15, 2002 at 19:04 UTC
Hmm. Are you sure you did a cut & paste instead of re-typing the code. It works fine for me, I just removed the CGI components: `print <<ENDHTML; <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>CGI Test</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2>Congratulations!</H2> <P>We're glad to see you $firtName, members of the $lastName family ar +e always welcome here. It's hard to believe that you're already $Age +years old. My how time flies.</P> </BODY></HTML> ENDHTML` [download] And it runs fine : `$perl -c foo.pl foo.pl syntax ok $foo.pl <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>CGI Test</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H2>Congratulations!</H2> <P>We're glad to see you , members of the family are always welcome he +re. It's hard to believe that you're already years old. My how time f +lies.</P> </BODY></HTML> ENDHTML` [download] -- vek --	[reply] [d/l] [select]