This is probably my stupidest question yet, but I feel I must ask anyway. I've worked mostly on CGI scripts in the past and had a good understanding of the server environment I was working in. However, now I'm working for a new company on editing this perl script, its not CGI, and doesn't use any libraries. Basically I'm just trying to get it to print out the environment variables by doing:

foreach (keys %ENV) { print OUTFILE "$_ => $ENV{$_} \n"; }

I've seen this done on this site, and from experience I know this works, but I get a blank page when this script runs. I don't have access to error logs like I normally do. And to run the scripts I have a batch script that kicks off the perl script on the server, I don't see any errors there either. So is there a reason this would not print out anything? Or is there another way to get the environment variables?

In reply to Figuring out the environment by Willman023

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