Re^4: "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error

Hi Kutsu
Thank you for the response, I really appreciate the time that you took to respond back. Some answers to your questions:

I was using Date::Calc to get the current date and compare it to the date that I need to use as a cutoff for rows that I want to delete. If that is in error and I don't need it to do that, then I am fine to drop it.

The next question, Win32::OLE, I have put that on as a standard to most of my programs, so I have to admit that was out of habit.

Finally, even with your code, I still get an error uninitialized value in hash element..., and it points me to this section of code in line 29 $header_data{$newrow[2]} = [ $newrow[3..18] ];

I appreciate the links to the documents, I will print those out and read them. Thank you very much again.
Portree

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Re^5: "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by kutsu (Priest) on Aug 10, 2005 at 20:09 UTC
I'd bet you can't open the '//163.../query.txt' file (I don't work with windows much but shouldn't / be \ instead), as that uninitialized value means `$newrow[2]` has nothing in it (might try a print "@newrow", "\n"; or use Data::Dumper; print Dumper @newrow; to check). "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce	[reply] [d/l]
Re: "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by benizi (Hermit) on Aug 11, 2005 at 17:51 UTC
The '//ip-address/folder/file' format works fine for me, here. Just as with all backslashes in Windows filenames, Perl does the right thing. (Thank goodness FAT*/NTFS/etc. disallow '/'s in filenames.) I did get an error, however, if I didn't log in to the SAMBA server at my test IP address before running the script. So, that might be something to consider.	[reply]