Re: Perl Program works on local machine, not over network?

A couple of suggestions to help you get more help from perl itself:

1.) Add use strict; and use warnings; at the start of your scripts. Of course, this will cause you to need to use my the first time that you use a variable.

2.) Modify you line of code where you open the file to print out a more useful error message by changing it to:

open(MYFILE, "$loc") or print "Didn't Open $loc:  $!\n";
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With more useful warning and error messages, it will be easier for you (and others) to debug the issue(s).

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Re^2: Perl Program works on local machine, not over network? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 31, 2012 at 19:23 UTC
Even better with the open is to use the three parameter variant and lexical file handles: `open my $inFile, '<', $sloc or die "Can't open $loc: $!\n";` [download] which makes the open mode explicit (and avoids a potential injection attack), and gives all the strictly goodness advantages from using the lexical file handle. Oh, and don't interpolate a single variable (`"$loc"`) - there is no need and clutters the code. True laziness is hard work	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Perl Program works on local machine, not over network?
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 31, 2012 at 19:23 UTC

Even better with the open is to use the three parameter variant and lexical file handles:

open my $inFile, '<', $sloc or die "Can't open $loc: $!\n";
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which makes the open mode explicit (and avoids a potential injection attack), and gives all the strictly goodness advantages from using the lexical file handle.

Oh, and don't interpolate a single variable ("$loc") - there is no need and clutters the code.

True laziness is hard work

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