I have a class that uses XML::Twig to parse a bunch of log file information (you may have seen an earlier post from me this week). Once I got my code working with scripts to test it, I rolled the same code into a CGI script. I get an error from XML::Parser::Expat that looks just like the following: 
Can't use string ("<logReader><log date="20010521-") as a symbol ref w
+hile "strict refs" in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sun
+4-solaris-thread/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 456.

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First of all, I am not using strict refs (vars, though), it is being set withing XML::Twig. This code behaves differently when being run from the command line (something I am told to expect by some).
The string it is referring to is the XML that I sent to the Twig->parse() command.

On an interesting side note, this is the first time I have written a CGI program, in spite of the fact that I have developed huge provisioning systems, servers, distributed message brokers, etc. all in Perl. I figured it was time for step 1 now that I have been a full time Perl developer for many years. :-)
DrSax

In reply to XML::Twig-parse() error under CGI by DrSax

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