I'm pretty knew to perl and I've looked around for awhile, and I cant seem to find a solution to my problem.
My problem has to do with LWP::Simple and CGI.PM I wrote a simple script that fetches a webpage then it parses the webpage( to get some information from it. Then I Output this data using CGI.PM. From the command line the script outputs everything perfectly, but when I run it from a browser none of the data I parsed from the webpage makes it in the browser window. Im running this on solaris and apache, it's a university server, I had to install the LWP module privately to my home directory, it wasn't installed on the system. Below is the script it's not very long.
Thanks,
Keegan
#!/usr/bin/perl
# use warning;
use CGI;
use CGI::Pretty;
use strict;
use lib qw(/home/001/d/da/dale81/LWP/lib/perl5/site_perl/
/home/001/d/da/dale81/LWP/lib/perl5/site_perl/LWP/);
use LWP::Simple;
my $fdata = CGI->new();
print $fdata->header;
print $fdata->start_html('Weather');
my $zip = 75252;
my $url1 = 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecas
+t?query=';
my $url = $url1.$zip;
my $response =get( $url );
my $day01;
my $day02;
my $day03;
my $day04;
my $day05;
my $fTemp;
my $cTemp;
#extract 5-day outlook
if($response=~/<th(.+)>([a-zA-Z]+)<\/th>(\s)<th(.+)>([a-zA-Z]+)<\/th>(
+\s)<th(.+)>([a-zA-Z]+)<\/th>(\s)<th(.+)>([a-zA-Z]+)<\/th>(\s)<th vali
+gn=middle class=smalltable width="20%" bgcolor=#DDDDDD>([a-zA-Z]+)<\/
+th>/i)
{
$day01=$2;
$day02=$5;
$day03=$8;
$day04=$11;
$day05=$13;
}
#output days as headings
print $fdata->h1($day01);
print br;
print $fdata->h1($day02);
print br;
print $fdata->h1($day03);
print br;
print $fdata->h1($day04);
print br;
print $fdata->h1($day05);
print br;
#extract temp data
if($response=~/<nobr><b>([0-9]+)<\/b> °\;F<\/nobr>(\s+)\/(\s+
+)<nobr><b>([0-9]+)<\/b> \;°C<\/nobr>/i)
{
$fTemp=$1;
$cTemp=$4;
}
#output temperature
print "Temperature F=", $fTemp;
print br;
print "Temperature C=", $cTemp;
print br;
print $fdata->end_html;
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