Hey all,

I have a prob. Please look at this error and tell me what I'm doing wrong, I keep getting:

Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated at npa line 16. syntax error at npa line 22, near "else" Execution of npa aborted due to compilation errors.

I am VERY new, and I can't seem to get this down, probably something to do with the reg exp I'm trying to use. All I want it to do it spit out an error when a letter is inputed.

I want it to read 6 numbers, pull the numbers from the file, then spit it out. But if a letter is inputed, I want it to error out. If I take out the if & else, it works, but if I hit a letter it spits out all the data in the file, thats 216 lines, toooo much.

VERY MESSY CODE WARNING. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
$cnip = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
print "\n                      Look Up NPANXX Info";
print "\n                   ==============================";
print "\n                   Please enter NPANXX:_______\b\b\b\b\b\b\b 
+";
chomp($cnip=<STDIN>);
if($cnip =~ /\d{6}/){
};
\@datb = `cat tech3 | grep $cnip`;
\@cnip = $cnip;
#printing the info
foreach $datb (\@datb){
\@cnip = split (\/\:/, $datb);
print "\n                ========================================\n";
print "                NPANXX   Line   Switch MSR&CUSTGP VMX";
print "
                $cnip $cnip[1]  $cnip[2]    $cnip[3] $cnip[4]    $cnip
+[5]";
print "                ========================================\n\n";
else {
        print "\nValid NPANXX not entered!\n";
};

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I know I'm probably gonna lose exp points for this one, but I really need help. Code is very ugly, but it spits out the data quite nicely when it works right!

In reply to Checking Input using reg exp. by defyance

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