Hi Podmaster,
I'm starting out with my first 'proper' use of CGI.pm today (rather than 'winging it' like I have done in the past. This means I'm sitting down with Dr Stein's book and being disciplined about what I use in the script. Sometimes in the heat of trying to get the script finished, that can be difficult:)

Well, I was browsing the book and in the middle of Listing 3.1 which can be found here around line 70 are the following lines:

print <<END;
<hr>
<a href="../../source.html">Code examples</a></address>
END

[download]

Now he does use hr, elsewhere in the script, but having recently read your comments in this post I thought I'd point it out to you, and enquire if this is an inconsistency in the script, or if there's a reason for it.

Also, if you have a moment, when functions are written hr() or br(), of what use are the parentheses in this case (perhaps colour could be assigned to horizontal rule?). I'd be interested if you could let me know.

Thanks

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Or die killing my script by jonnyfolk
in thread Or die killing my script by sulfericacid

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