version compatability

dani681 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: version compatability by davidrw (Prior) on May 06, 2005 at 00:16 UTC
Can you provide more details of "acting weird" (and specific snippets if applicable)? What versions of CGI are on your server and your friend's server (I would guess they're different)? If different, check the CGI.pm changelog to see if anything in there matches up with your symptoms.	[reply]
Re^2: version compatability by dani681 (Initiate) on May 06, 2005 at 00:29 UTC
I don't know what version of CGI is installed, but it's probably as old as the hills. But the only thing I'm using from that is the param() function, and that appears to be working. One example of the "weirdness" is my regular expressions. For example, the following line works perfectly on my server but doesn't work at all on my friend's: $strFile =~ s/ //g;	[reply]
Re^3: version compatability by davidrw (Prior) on May 06, 2005 at 00:41 UTC
Have you verified that the value of $strFile is exactly the same in both scripts when that line is executed? What is an example value? If it's not the same, how is $strFile set? Does the script have ~~'use warnings;' and~~ 'use strict;'? If not, anything new when you add them? Update: ysth points out that 'use warnings' is a perl >= 5.6.0 thing. Hopefully 'use strict' will still help the OP to help us help him..	[reply]
Re^4: version compatability by ysth (Canon) on May 06, 2005 at 16:20 UTC
Re^4: version compatability by dani681 (Initiate) on May 06, 2005 at 01:45 UTC
Re: version compatability by Corion (Patriarch) on May 06, 2005 at 06:37 UTC
I wish you luck. Perl 5.004 lacks many of the syntax stuff that is considered common nowadays. If you are not experienced with Perl, you have little chance of fixing it, but here are some stumbling blocks that I found: No `qr//` syntax - use interpolated strings instead No INIT blocks - copy and paste the code into your main program instead Your best bet is to either install a newer version of Perl or to find a better hosting provider that has a newer version of Perl.	[reply]