Hi I am new to your forum and hope I am not offending anyone with writing in english not script <grin>. I am very new to programming, but not to web design and am writing in hopes that someone could look at this simple search script.

I adopted it from MSA (Matt's Script Archive which< was later adopted by NMS) It seems it isn't working correctly.. I changed the variables as suggested in readme.txt and during my first test run it's gives me an error. ...????

.....This is the portion of the script I changed.... 

# USER CONFIGURATION SECTION

# Modify these to your own settings. You might have
# to contact your system administrator if you do not
# run your own web server. If the purpose of these
# parameters seems unclear, please see the README file.

BEGIN { $DEBUGGING      = 1; }
my $basedir             = '/hamida/www/';
my $baseurl             = 'http://www.hamidapharma.com/';
my @files               = ('*.html','*/*.html');
my $title               = "Hamida Search Program";
my $title_url           = 'http://www.hamidapharma.com';
my $search_url       = 'http://www.hamidapharma.com/international.htm'
+;
my @blocked             = ();
my $emulate_matts_code  = 1;
my $style               = '';

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the following config variables only affect the program if $emulate_matts_code is switched off $hit_threshhold is what the minimum amount of hits per page that are required for the match to be outputted 
my $hit_threshhold      = 1;
my @subdirs             = ('','/manual','/vmanual');
my $no_prune            = 1;

# USER CONFIGURATION << END >>
# ----------------------------

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My site is http://www.hamidapharma.com/international.htm
- go to test page link at the bottom of the page.

MSA - script http://www.scriptarchive.com/search.html

host's cgi-bin. (www.hostway.com)

Any help is greatly appreciated...
thank you mucho....
sima

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