in reply to Where did I go wrong?

You are hiding errors by not using use strict;. One is that $filename is neither declared nor initialized. 

open( FILE, "< /tmp/blah.txt" ) or die "Can't open $filename : $!";

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should be 

my $filename = '/tmp/blah.txt';
open( FILE, '<', $filename ) or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n";

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By the way, you might want to use HTTP::Request::Common instead of building the query manually.

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Re^2: Where did I go wrong?
by sjlo (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2007 at 22:29 UTC
    ok..here are the errors... unmatched right curly bracket at c:\users\xxx\perl\script.pl line 17, at end of line syntax error at line 17, near "}" execution aborted due to compilation errors
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      That error does not exist in the code you gave us.
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        it's the error I received when I tried to run it :/ here is exactly what i have now.. 
        
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $digits;

 
my $filename = '/tmp/blah.txt';
open( FILE, '<', $filename ) or die "Can't open $filename: $!\n";

$digits = $_;
print "Attempting line: " . $digits;

k_go_now($digits);

# Sleep to keep us slightly more hidden and load off their servers
sleep(1);
}

# k go now sub; grabs input from file ($username, $password) tries to 
+login
sub k_go_now
{
my ($digits) = @_;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");

# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'https://xxx.com');
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('query=libwww-perl&mode=dist');

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);

# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
check_output ($res->content);
}
else {
print $res->status_line, "\n";
}
}

# suib check_output checks the response from the website and if it's a
+ny good
sub check_output
{
my ($output) = @_;

if ($output =~ /Login Failed/)
{
print "Nope, failed login\n";
} elsif ($output =~ /Login Successful/)
{
print "got'em with login details\n";
} else
{
print "unknown response !!!\n$output\n\n";
}
}

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