Re: Unknown warnings/errors

m// is the "long hand" version of //, so the warning is probably referring to this:

($ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /MSIE/)
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If so, that would mean that $ENV{HTTP_USER_AGENT} isn't defined (i.e. you don't have an HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable set.

As a side note, you're probably better off using IE conditional comments to work around explorer's crappy CSS implementation.

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Re^2: Unknown warnings/errors by kmullin5016 (Acolyte) on Jan 29, 2007 at 21:14 UTC
That makes sense. I'm usually running this from a web browser where it is set, but I'm running this in a test mode from a unix command line. Thank you.	[reply]
Re^3: Unknown warnings/errors by chargrill (Parson) on Jan 29, 2007 at 23:11 UTC
FYI, you can test ENV variables from the command line like so: `$ HTTP_USER_AGENT=MSIE perl myscript.cgi` [download] Or: `$ HTTP_USER_AGENT=FireFox perl myscript.cgi` [download] That is, put the environment variable name plus what value you want it to have, separated by an equals sign, immediately preceding your invocation of the script. Just a handy way to test things like that out. But I'll second Joost's advice (though not to the letter) and suggest dealing with goofy IE CSS implementations through plain CSS. --chargrill `s*lil; $=join'',sort split q; s;.;grr; &&s+(.(.)).+$2$1+; $; = qq-$_-;s,.,ahc,;$,.=chop for split q,,,reverse;print for($,,$;,$,$/)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]