Thanks for reply. below is the varibales as defined -
$LOCTAG = "<!--location-->";
$TYPETAG = "<!-ategory-->";
and error message was
Name "main::JOBDATA" used only once: possible typo at gen_job.pl line 14.
Name "main::CP" used only once: possible typo at gen_job.pl line 13.
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at gen_job.pl line 35.
Thanks
AS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Anshu Anshu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: what's wrong in systax
> On May 8, Anshu Anshu said:
>
> > 22 while (<IF>) {
> > 23 if (/$LOCTAG/i) {
> > 24 ($curloc) = /VALUE="([^"]+)"\s*\w*>/i;
> > 25 $location .= "${curloc}::";
> > 26 }
> > 27
> > 28 if (/$TYPETAG/i) {
> > 29 ($curtype) = /VALUE="([^"]+)">/i;
> > 30 $jobtype .= "${curtype}::";
> > 31 }
> > 32 }
> > 33 close(IF);
> > 34 $location =~ s/::$//;
> > 35 $jobtype =~ s/::$//;
>
> It would be much appreciated if you gave us an error message. My guess is
> that there are characters in $LOCTAG and $TYPETAG that Perl is using as
> regex characters. Try:
>
> if (/\Q$LOCTAG\E/i) { ... }
> if (/\Q$TYPETAG\E/i) { ... }
>
> instead. Or, consider using index() instead:
>
> if (index(lc, lc($LOCTAG)) > -1) { ... }
>
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