Yikes! You really got that script to work on your computer ? My perl complains loudly when it reaches the <br><br> part.

Now, if you either removed that line or put it in within a print statement, it would at least compile :-)

If you want your program to "work" as a cgi-script you need at least a content-type header 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
my $add = '152';
print $add / 321 + 4 * $add, "\n";

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And it will not work without 'use strict' or '-w' of course *grin*. And then there are all the other possible errors you might make of course...

Autark.

In reply to Re: why isnt it working? by autark
in thread why isnt it working? by john1987

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