Wisdom is sought from the monks for a beginner. I have installed various cgi/perl packages but I have decided to write what I thought would be a relatively easy script - oh how naive for one so old! I am trying to determine output based on the month, the codse I have been working with is as follows:- 
#!/usr/bin/perl

#$myname="Merlin";
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime (tim
+e + ($timediff * 3600));
    @months = ('01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09','10','11',
+'12');
    $month = $months[$mon];

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

if ($month==11){
undef $/;
open (FILE, 'hours.txt');
print <FILE>;
close FILE;

}

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If i exclude the if statement and the relevant { or } the script displays the contents of hours.txt but as soon as I use the if statement the 500 Internal Server Error is displayed.

I have searched the monastary and from the examples I have found I thought I had got the syntax correct. Perhaps I have looked at this for too long and can't see the obvious errors. Hopefully someone can spot my problem and offer a solution and set me on the path to enlightenment.

Many thanks for any help that may be offered

Julian

Edit by castaway, fixed closing code tag, added some p tags.

In reply to If/else problems by Anonymous Monk

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