hi,
when i ran this script its throwing me an weird error. this works perfect when i run locally, but when i ran on the server it gives me:
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at sn8.pl line 51.
Use of uninitialized value in string gt at sn8.pl line 52.
-1

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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;

use List::Util q{first};

sub search_phrase{
my @array;
my ( $inFile, @phrases ) = @_;
my $lastPhrase = $phrases[ -1 ];

open my $inFH, q{<}, $inFile
   or die qq{open: $inFile: $!\n};
my @lines = <$inFH>;
close $inFH or die qq{close: $!\n};
foreach my $phrase ( @phrases )
{
    my $rxPhrase = qr{\Q$phrase\E};
    my $lineNo =
      first { $lines[ $_ ] =~ $rxPhrase } 0 .. $#lines;

    unless ( defined $lineNo )
    {
        #print "-1";
#        print qq{$phrase: not found in sequence\n};
        next;
    }
        print ""
       if ($lines[ $lineNo ] =~ m{\Q$lastPhrase\E\s*(\d*)});

   push (@array,$1);
    $lineNo ++;
    splice @lines, 0, $lineNo;

}
return (@array);

}



my $file_n = "test2.txt";
my $phrase1 = "total rejected rows:";
my $phrase2 = "total rejected recors:";
my $phrase3 = "rejectb:";
my $phrase4 = "total rejected rows:";

my @newarray=search_phrase($file_n, $phrase1, $phrase2, $phrase3, $phr
+ase4);
my $count=($#newarray);
$newarray[$count]=~ s/\s+//g;
if ((($#newarray+1)>=1) && ($newarray[$count]gt 0)) {
        print "$newarray[$count]\n";
        }
else
{
        print "-1\n";
}

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my test file is: test2.txt

This file is to check the number of occurences of the word reject
total rows rejected: 80

this file just contains the phrase reject.
reject:3
reject 3
reject 4
total rejected rows:    100
total rejected rows:  90
total rejected rows: 60
total rejected rows:40
total rejected rows:40
90 rows rejected for sub
999 rows rejected for sub
100  rows rejected for sub
Reject_Ao
total rejected recors: 60

total rejected rows:49

reject:1
390 rows rejected for sub

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could somebody help me with this?
thanks,

Mercury.

In reply to uninitialized value error by mercuryshipz

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