Re^2: Cannot download and print html

You covered yourself by stating that you are not big on CGI.pm, but i really feel like i should nitpick as this is a very common mistake:

use CGI qw(:all);
my $cgi = CGI->new;
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That is mixing the two styles you use CGI as: procedural versus OO. Always use one, but never use both. That is, you either use this:

# import CGI's functions into my namespace
use CGI qw(:all);

print header, start_html( ... ), h1('HTML Body'), end_html;
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or you use this:

use CGI;

# access CGI's functions as object methods
my $cgi = CGI->new;

print $cgi->header ... (yadda yadda)
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Cheers. :)

jeffa

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Re^3: Cannot download and print html by rjbs (Pilgrim) on Jul 14, 2004 at 20:42 UTC
You're quite right -- I just added that in annoyance when I realized that CGI wasn't exporting the meta sub, which provides the proper value for the -head parameter. I should have used CGI::meta, since I'm not sure how to get at it OO-ly. Or perhaps there is a subset export to just get things that are not available as methods? Enlighten me, frater! rjbs	[reply]
Re^4: Cannot download and print html by jeffa (Bishop) on Jul 14, 2004 at 21:42 UTC
I prefer iburrell's suggestion, but CGI.pm has a funky little magical way of allowing you to pull any tag into the current namespace: `use CGI qw(meta); my $cgi = CGI->new;` [download] Still seems weird, but it works. :) jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply] [d/l]