Re: [Sheflug] Help with Perl/CGI

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

You don't seem to include

use CGI qw/:standard/;

to import the param routine.

Also why the -P,  -c -w is to check systax?

Dave.


Steve Tickle wrote:

> I'm trying to write a simple little CGI script in perl and am having trouble 
> with the param() command. I have CGI.pm v2.88 and perl v5.6.1 installed.
>
> When I check for correct syntax and operation using perl -P I get the 
> following 
> steve@linux2:~/public_html> perl -P cgi-bin/test.cgi
> Undefined subroutine &main::param called at cgi-bin/test.cgi line 6.
>
> My perl script is below
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl;
>
> my $input;
>
> $input = param('input');
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "You typed '$input'\n";
>
> If I replace $input = param('input'); with $input = 'Hello World'; everything 
> works OK so it's definitely a problem with the param() command.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>  


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