Is "states" a reserved hash name??

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Re: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 10, 2007 at 22:03 UTC
There are no reserved hash names (except for upper-cased hashes that Perl uses internally). You probably have a typo somewhere. If you have strict and warnings enabled, your error log should give you a warning message; see `perldoc perldiag` for help in diagnosing it. Otherwise, post the minimal amount of code that demonstrates the problem and someone here can point out the typo.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by punch_card_don (Curate) on Mar 10, 2007 at 22:28 UTC
OK, that's all I needed to know before speinding the time to find a typo somewhere..... Thanks. Forget that fear of gravity, Get a little savagery in your life.	[reply]
Re^3: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 11, 2007 at 01:49 UTC
Not only that, but you can test your program for compilability at the command line, without actually running it, using `perl -c`. Yes, technically, it's not quite this simple. But this oversimplification is useful in many cases, especially when just starting out. A word spoken in Mind will reach its own level, in the objective world, by its own weight*	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by cog (Parson) on Mar 10, 2007 at 23:20 UTC
Can you post your code? :-)	[reply]
Re: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 11, 2007 at 02:37 UTC
and I get the dreaded Internal Server Error. Check the server's error log for error messages.	[reply]
Re: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Mar 11, 2007 at 07:33 UTC
Check out CGI::Carp. `use CGI::Carp qw[fatalsToBrowser]` will send all fatal errors to the browser in a fairly nice format to look at. Hope this helps! meh.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Is "states" a reserved hash name?? by DrHyde (Prior) on Mar 12, 2007 at 10:36 UTC
"Internal Server Error" is not generated by perl. It sounds like the sort of thing a web server might spit out. Look in its logs for details. I suspect that you have: a typo in your code; or you are using strict (like you should) and forgot a `my`; or you are trampling on a `%states` that is being used by some other piece of code And no, `%states` is not reserved: $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e 'my %states' $ [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]