A quick glance at your code shows a missing ; at the end of
$refresh=$q->param('refresh')
check if that's not the problem first!
Regards,
Jos Boumans
Peter wrote:
> hi,
>
> i just started learning perl and i'm kinda stuck....
>
> i want to pass two querystrings from an asp page to a perl script.
> ie ......cgi?&tickers=yyy&refresh=x
>
> the script accepts the tickers by itself, but when i try to add the refresh
> it says
> i have a compile error, here's how its coded...
>
> so what it does is grabs the ticker name and gets quotes for it....then
> redirects
> me back to the page i requested the info from with the new data.
>
> -----------------------
> my $q = new CGI;
>
> if ($q->param('tickers')) {
> my @tickers = split ' ', $q->param('tickers');
> init;
> getquote $q, ($tickers[0]);
> }
>
> $refresh=$q->param('refresh')
> -----------------------
>
> thanks,
> pete
