Hi!
That $a in the first script, to me, looks like an OO-style CGI Query object.
This has to be created before use:
$a = new CGI;
Sascha
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Original Message:
> Randal, Brian, Stephen,
> Thanks a bunch for your help with my parsing script. I appreciate it very
> much. Here's another problem:
> Why doesn't this do what I think it should do? (I just get "Internal server
> error")
>
>
> #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> use CGI qw(param);
>
> my ($who,$quote_type,$key);
> $who = $a->param('firstname')."".$a->param('lastname');
> $quote_type = $b->param('submitButtoncattleman');
> my ($sec,$min,$hours,$day,$month,$year) = (localtime)[0,1,2,3,4,5];
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> printf("At %02d:%02d:%02d, on %02d/%02d/%04d/, <BR>
> <B>$who</B> submitted this request for a
> <U><B>$quote_type</B></U> quote",
> $hour,$min,$sec,$month+1,$day,$year+1900);
>
> foreach $key (sort param()) {
> print header;
> print "<P><B>$key</B>: <U><B>".param($key)."</B></U>"
> }
>
>
> However, when I comment out everything but:
>
> use CGI qw(param);
> foreach $key (sort param()) {
> print header;
> print "<P><B>$key</B>: <U><B>".param($key)."</B></U>"
> }
>
> I don't get anything; just a blank page.
> CGI.pm is in /perl/lib. Perl.exe is in perl/bin. Could this be
> contributing?
> Also, just wanted to know what *.param($key).* does as well as *."".*
> I know that *..* is the range operator, so is *."".* simlar? Couldn't find
> anything on it
> in the Llama book.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan
>
