This is weird.

I have some variables that won't show up in a required file.

Example...

$name = "turd";

require "./turd.pl";

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turd.pl is an html document with surrounding print<<ENDHTML; ENDHTML things...

whenever I run the program, the variable $name is never shown, and even though I see the html without the variables, I do see this error (which is repeated 3 times...)

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at /turd.pl line 1.

line one contains "print<<ENDHTML;"

The Weird thing in all of this is that if i replace the require statement with exactly what is in the "required" file, everything works fine.

Even though they are not required in this particular subroutine, I have multiple required files in this script, and all of them are working fine. I am at a loss.

Any ideas?

Edit: chipmunk 2001-07-13

In reply to Weird things... by Anonymous Monk

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