RE: [Sheflug] Help with Perl/CGI

["James Bruce" <aca00jab [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about making it:

$input - param("input");

Does that help?
James


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[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Tickle
Sent: 23 October 2002 15:52
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Subject: [Sheflug] Help with Perl/CGI


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?
-- 
Steve Tickle
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