Here's the trick: verify that all of your CGI scripts run from the command line before you run them through a browser. If you must run it through a browser, don't forget use diagnostics and try running it without a wrapper that might mask the errors.

I don't know that that particular error message would have told me that {} vs () was at fault.

Well, the error message would have mentioned a couple of things: one, which line number the problem was on. That's very important. Two, once you are more familiar with Perl, you'll see that a list is wrapped in parens () and that braces {} will return a reference. Once that becomes more ingrained, error messages like that will make more sense.

Cheers,
Ovid

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