On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Chris Stinemetz
<[email protected]>wrote:
> am having issues with my first script and have hopes someone may be
> able to explain to me whey it isn't working correctly.
>
> The error is coming form line 11 and the error is:
>
> Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
> Bareword "left" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at
>
The error message is a major clue. Try quotes around "left"
> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi line 7.
> Execution of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test2.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
> Premature end of script headers: test2.cgi
>
>
> 1 #!/usr/bin/perl
> 2 use warnings;
> 3 use strict;
> 4 use CGI;
> 5
> 6 my $q = CGI->new;
> 7 print $q->header(-type=>'text/html'),
> 8 $q->start_html('hello world'), # start the HTML
> 9 $q->h1({-align=>right},'hello world'), # level 1 header
> 10 $q->h1({-align=>left});
> 11 $q->h1('some','contents');
> 12 $q->end_html; # end the HTML
>
>
You have a couple other issues. Since you have one print statement, spread
over multiple lines, the semi-colons on lines 10 and 11 are bugs. They
should be commas. The semi-colons terminate the statement resulting in
syntax errors.
Mike
