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in thread date problem with movie script

The error is:
Use of uninitiated value in exists at getdata.pl line 1943
Use of uninitiated value in hash element at getdata.pl line 1948

That is on the "first" URL, on all subsequent ones (there are 6 more, for total of 7 days of movietimes) there is the first line "1943" error, plus this:
Use of uninitiated value in hash element at getdata.pl line 1952

The script finishes executing, but it does not "parse" (?) the data for download to my PalmPilot.

I think it is that line because it is what I think is the part of the program that tells it what date to look at/for. Yahoo changed their website format so the dates are different now. (refer to original posting for this logic) Note - I know so little about PERL & programming my logic may be flawed..

Let me know what other information I need to post if something is unclear

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Re: Re: Re: date problem with movie script
by matija (Priest) on Apr 16, 2004 at 16:28 UTC
    I'm sorry - either the original page has changed, or I'm missing something, but I don't see the difference in dates between the two pages.

    IMHO your best bet would be to either read perldoc perlre which will teach you to make regular expressions for yourself, or use Date::Manip to translate the date into the form you need. Or both, quite possibly.

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      The two HTML links I listed do actually take you to the same page. I do not have a copy of the html page before it was changed. I did not even know it changed until my script stopped working and then I could not retrieve a copy of the old HTML code.
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