Hi there,

I've written a perl script(checkform.pl) to check the entries of a -web browser- form and process it in a certain way. My code was working perfectly till i added a perlpod section at the end of it. Now I am getting the following message from the browser: "CGI failed Please inform the author. More information on CGI support can be found in the FAQ. Look at the log files in /var/apache for any error messages from the program"

the error log shows the following message: Mon Jun 10 10:30:08 2003 error Missing right bracket at /scripts/checkform.pl line 13, at end of line syntax error at /scripts/mthomas/checkform.pl line 13, at EOF

perl -c checkform.pl returns that my syntax is ok. Once i removed the perlpod section, the code worked fine again! really weird

Did any one encounter such problem? Am I missing anything?

Thanks, Michelle

In reply to CGI and perlpod by Anonymous Monk

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