peacepanda3 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is the error that I am getting in the apache error log file syntax error at C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/cgi-bin/date.cgi line 12, near "print "</body"\r Wed Mar 14 20:26:24 2012 error client 127.0.0.1 Search pattern not terminated at C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/cgi-bin/date.cgi line 13.\r The code for the date.cgi file is as below 
#!/usr/bin/perl

# print CGI header
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# now print the time
print "<html> <head>\n";
print "<title>Current Date and Time</title>\n";
print "</head> <body>\n";
print "<h1>The date is now</h1>\n";
print "<p>$time = (localtime),"</p>";
print "</body>\n"
print "</html>\n";

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Can some one tell me what is that I am doing wrong.Thanks Ajit

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Re: perl program giving errors
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:11 UTC

    This line has misplaced quote, fix it 

    - print "<p>$time = (localtime),"</p>";
+ print "<p>", scalar(localtime),</p>";

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Re: perl program giving errors
by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:12 UTC
    Line 11 misses a double quote.
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Re: perl program giving errors
by thargas (Deacon) on Mar 14, 2012 at 17:52 UTC
    and line 12 is missing a trailing semi-colon
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Re: perl program giving errors
by mendeepak (Scribe) on Mar 15, 2012 at 05:45 UTC

    <font color=red">print "</body>\n" semi colon at the end of line is missing For future programming do put -w in the shebang line #!/usr/bin/perl -w so that errors will be shown to an extend

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      You probably mean "warnings", not "errors".
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        yup
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