cgi question

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Re: cgi question by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jun 18, 2003 at 14:12 UTC
After having fixed the missing semicolon after the `use CGI ...` it worked fine for me, producing: Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"><head><title>resource input</title> </head><body><h1>recource</h1> What version of CGI.pm and Perl are you using? /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cgi question by hardburn (Abbot) on Jun 18, 2003 at 14:09 UTC
Perl thinks you're doing something like this: `open(FH, '>foo.txt') or die $!; print FH "bar"; close(FH);` [download] Which prints to a file instead of STDOUT. Try explicitly passing the filehandle in your code, e.g.: `print STDOUT header(),start_html ("resource input"),h1("recource");` [download] ---- I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident. -- Schemer Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: cgi question by edoc (Chaplain) on Jun 18, 2003 at 14:14 UTC
`use CGI qw(:standard) print header(),start_html ("resource input"),h1("recource");` [download] Just gotta check.. was this code copied out of your script? ..it's missing a semicolon (;) at the end of the first line. cheers, J	[reply] [d/l]
Re: cgi question by kutsu (Priest) on Jun 18, 2003 at 14:13 UTC
Another way to do this might be this: Read more... (400 Bytes) Second way might be: Read more... (350 Bytes) Might take a look at Ovid's Course Thanks to jeffa for pointing this node out: (Ovid - CSS in external file) Re: CGI Update: Changed first line as it wasn't worded right and added last line "Pain is weakness leaving the body, I find myself in pain everyday" -me	[reply] [d/l] [select]
(jeffa) 2Re: cgi question by jeffa (Bishop) on Jun 18, 2003 at 15:33 UTC
Just because the original poster forgot a semi-colon does not mean that we should persuade them from using CGI.pm's HTML generation methods, IMHO. All preferences aside, at least promote `header`: `use strict; use warnings; use CGI qw(header param); print header(); print "<p>resource input</p>\n"; print "<h1>resource</h1>\n";` [download] But for something this small, why type all of that when what the OP had (with that semi-colon in the right place) works just fine? Kudos, howver, for promoting Ovid's stuff. ;) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]