here is the revised code commenting out carp and cgi:carp 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
#use Carp;
use diagnostics;
use strict;
use warnings;

my @pages;
my @xfilenames; 
my @filenames;
my @xtitles; 
my @titles;
my @xheadings; 
my @headings;
my @xstuff; 
my $xstuff=""; 
my @stuff;
my @xtemplate; 
my $xtemplate=""; 
my @template;



open(PAGES, "<pages.txt") || die $!;
@pages = <PAGES>;
close(PAGES);

foreach $_ (@pages) {
    if (m/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/) {
        push(@xfilenames, $_)
        }
    elsif (m/^\*{4}title\*{4}/) {
        push(@xtitles, $_)
        }
    elsif (m/^\*{4}heading\*{4}/) {
        push(@xheadings, $_)
        }
    else {    
        push(@xstuff, $_)
        }
    }



foreach $_ (@xfilenames) {
    s/^\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@filenames, $_);
    }
foreach $_ (@xtitles) {
    s/^\*{4}title\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@titles, $_);
    }
foreach $_ (@xheadings) {
    s/^\*{4}heading\*{4}//;
    chomp ($_);
    push(@headings, $_);
    }

$xstuff = join("", @xstuff);
@stuff = $xstuff =~ /\*{4}stuff\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}endstuff\*{4}/sg;


open(TEMPLATE, "<template.html") || die $!;
@xtemplate = <TEMPLATE>;
close (TEMPLATE);



$xtemplate = join("", @xtemplate);
@template = $xtemplate =~ /^(.*?)\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}/sg;
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}filename.ext\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}title\
+*{4}/sg);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}title\*{4}(.*?)\*{4}headings\*{4}
+/sg);
push (@template, $xtemplate =~ /\*{4}headings\*{4}(.*?)/sg);



for (my $i=0; $i < (@filenames); $i++) {
    open(FILE, ">@filenames[$i]") || die $!;
    print FILE qq($temlate[0] $title[$i] $template[1] $heading[$i] $te
+mplate[2] $stuff[$i] $template[3]);
    close(FILE);
    }


print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print <<EndHTML;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transisional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>

<title>create</title>
</head>
<body>
EndHTML

foreach (@filenames) {
    print "<p>Name:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@titles) {
    print "<p>Titles:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@headings) {
    print "<p>Headings:$_</p>";
    }
print "<hr />";
foreach (@stuff) {
    print "<p>stuff:$_</p>";
    }
print <<EndHTML;
</body>
</html>
EndHTML

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then i run it from the command line like this 
perl -cw create2.pl

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and it still returns these errors 
C:\Perl>perl -cw create2.pl
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1): Array found where operator expect
+ed at (eva
l 1) line 1, at end of line
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1):    (Do you need to predeclare Car
+p::longmes
s?)
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1): Array found where operator expect
+ed at (eva
l 1) line 2, at end of line
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1):    (Do you need to predeclare Car
+p::shortme
ss?)
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1): Array found where operator expect
+ed at (eva
l 1) line 3, at end of line
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1):    (Do you need to predeclare Car
+p::shortme
ss?)
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1): Array found where operator expect
+ed at (eva
l 1) line 4, at end of line
[Wed Aug 22 12:30:50 2001] (eval 1):    (Do you need to predeclare Car
+p::longmes
s?)
Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at C:\PERL\lib/Carp.pm lin
+e 296.

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what is wrong with lines 1-4 and why is it still giving me an error about carp, im not using it!!!!THANKS for your time and sorry im so slow at figuring this out

In reply to im trying its just pissed at me by maddfisherman
in thread errors revisited by maddfisherman

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