On Tuesday 27 June 2006 16:47, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
> Russbucket wrote:
> > SUSE Linux 10.0 perl 5.8.7-5.3
> >
> > I have a Perl (cgi) program that runs under windows. I am moving it to
> > Linux. When I execute it from the command line (/usr/bin/perl
> > memberretreive.cgi -cw) I get an error that says there is an error after
> > the C in line 11.
> >
> > this is the line:
> > $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9] [a-fA-F0-9]) /pack(''C'', hex($1))/eg;
> >
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction.
> > Thanks for any assistance!!
>
> Hi,
>
> It appears that you are using two single quotes in place of a double
> quote on each side of the 'C', so the argument grouping to pack() is
> off. Try this:
>
> $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9] [a-fA-F0-9]) /pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
>
> This ensures that "C" is interpreted as a literal string, rather than as
> an empty string followed by a C followed by an empty string.
>
> Cheers,
>
> kjw
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Thanks for the quick response, that was the problem. Not sure where the single
Quotes came from. I have a couple of other errors now but I see if I can
figure them out.
Thanks again.
--
Russ
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