Online I get: Software error: Execution of menu.pl aborted due to compilation errors. The code was working until I added
my $pass = $q->param('pass');
   if ($pass ne "jerry"){
       print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print "<HTML> \n";
        print "The menu for tonight is \n";
        print $words;
        print ". \n";
        print "Hey bub, stop messin' with my menu!";
        die;
        }

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Here is the rest of the code does anyone see what is causing the error?
TIA
jg
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use CGI qw/:standard/;

use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser /;

my $q = CGI->new();

# Parse Form Search Information
# if it's a single form value, map the value as a scalar, other wise, 
+the value is
# and arrayref
my %FORM = map { $_, @{[ param($_) ]} > 1 ? [ param($_) ] : param($_) 
} param();

my $pass = $q->param('pass');
   if ($pass ne "jerry"){
       print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
        print "<HTML> \n";
        print "The menu for tonight is \n";
        print $words;
        print ". \n";
        print "Hey bub, stop messin' with my menu!";
        die;
        } 

my $words = $q->param('words');   
   if ($words eq ""){
    $words = "no specials today";
   }
open (TEXTFILE,"+>/home/nolaflash/www/menu.txt") || die "where's the d
+amn file? : $!";
print TEXTFILE  "words=";
print TEXTFILE  $words;
close (TEXTFILE) || die "close damn you : $!";
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<HTML> \n";
print "The menu has been updated for you. \n";
print "The menu for tonight is \n";
print "$words. \n";

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In reply to Local tests reveal no syntax error but... by jerrygarciuh

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