Jim Witte wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Apache on a MacOS X (10.1.2) box in IP-loopback mode, and
> I'm experiementing with a CGI script that acts like a state-machine. I
> cooked up the example at the bottom of the page. If I run it as is, it
> runs fine. But if I comment out line 48, which tells &action1 to exit
> when it finishes, the browser displays this message, after which it
> executes &action2 (correctly):
>
> t2.pl: Argument "action2" isn't numeric in numeric eq (==) at <file
> path> line 16.
>
> What does this mean,
It means that the string "action2" is not a number but you are using the
numeric equality (==) operator instead of eq.
> and why does it only show up if the exit() statment is commented?
> If I run it at the command line, it runs fine,
> exept it tells me that &action1 and &action2 are called too early to
> check their prototypes (which I expected). If I change the quotes in
> lines 14 and 16 to double-quotes, it sill exibits the same behavior.
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use CGI qw(:standard);
> use diagnostics;
> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> BEGIN {
> use CGI::Carp qw(carpout);
> carpout(STDOUT);
> }
> $commname = param('commname');
> if (!$commname) {
> dostart(); }
> if ($commname == 'action1') {
^^
eq
> action1(); }
> if ($commname == 'action2') { #### line 16
^^
eq
> action2(); }
>
> [snip code]
John
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