I am trying to make RTF's using RTF::Document. It's not bad, just had a bunch of flags come up. I can still have it generate a file on my computer, but on my server inside my application it won't run due to these same flags (I'm using Mason). So I am trying to edit the module on my server to get rid of the problems. Only 2 left...but I can't figure out how to do it. Any suggestions? Here is the error: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/RTF/Document.pm line 472. splice() offset past end of array at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/RTF/Document.pm line 805. And here are the lines of code around those numbers... 
sub import {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->set_properties (\%DOCINFO, @_);

## here comes 472 ##
$self->splice_raw ($self->{DOCUMENT}, 1, 1, "\\".$self->{charset});

    # --- Insert creation time in Information Group
    if ($self->{creatim})
    {
        my ($ss, $mn, $hr, $dd, $mm, $yy) = localtime($self->{creatim}
+);
        $yy+=1900; $mm++;

        my $creatim = $self->add_group($self->{info});

        $self->add_raw( $creatim,  '\creatim',
            "\\yr$yy", "\\mo$mm", "\\dy$dd", "\\hr$hr", "\\min$mn", "\
+\sec$ss"
        );
        $self->{creatim} = 0;
    };
}

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Here's the code around line 805. 
sub splice_raw # splice a raw value into a section
{
    my $self = shift;
    my $section = shift;
    my $position = shift;
    my $length = shift;

## here comes 805 ##
    splice @{$section}, $position, $length, @_;
}

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Any help or suggestions are appreciated!

In reply to Unitialized value and splice offset in RTF::Document by inblosam

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