Hi i am new to Perl programming. I am writing the HTML and jquery in the code. I am not able to figure out why the HTML part is not working. Here is the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $cgi = CGI->new;
#print $cgi->redirect(-location=>'test1.cgi');

print $cgi->header(
        -type=> "text/html" );
        
print <<EOF;
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.0/jquer
+y.min.js"></script>
<script>
    var embeddedVideo = {
        
    requestVID : function() {
        $.ajax({
            url:"serve.cgi",
            success: function () {
                alert("done");
            },
        }).fail(function( jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown ) { console.l
+og(textStatus,errorThrown)});
    },
};
$(document).ready(function(){
    embeddedVideo.requestVID();
});
</script>
</head>
</html>

EOF

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In the log it is writing like 
 Use of uninitialized value $. in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/
+lib/cgi-bin/test.cgi line 13.

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Please tell me where it is going wrong.I don't get any useful information relating to this.And i am not sure how to make it working. Any help will be appreciated.Thanks in advance

In reply to what is this error means Use of uninitialized value $. in concatenation (.) or string by aca

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