Re: beginner here - with basic cgi trouble

[Phillip Bruce]

"Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> 
> > - server log -
> > [error](2)No such file or directory. exec of /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/
> >   formparser.cgi failed
> > [error][192.168.1.8] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/apache/
> >   cgi-bin/formparser.cgi
> > - I see the file DOES exist as formparser.cgi in the directory path shown
> > in the errors.
> > - I run perl -c formparser.cgi and get the response Syntax OK
> 
> It seems to me that the problem isn't that it can't find formparser.cgi,
> but there is some other file that formparser.cgi depends on to run that
> can't be found (the perl executable perhaps?).  Checking the syntax isn't
> enough -- you need to see if the program will *run*.  If it's executable,
> you should be able to at least do ./formparser.cgi and see where it's
> failing.
> 
> -- Brett
>http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
> 
> Gibble, Gobble, we ACCEPT YOU ...
Chip,

  Briet is right. But also do perl -d ./formpargser.cgi  that
will put you in
  debug state and should bring up a prompt. See below:


Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.0402
Emacs support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help.

main::(suggestion.cgi:6):   $mailprog =
'/usr/lib/sendmail';
  DB<1> 

The DB<1> is a prompt and by type and N means to step thru the
code watch it execute.
That may also help trouble shoot the problem further.

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Using Email

[Phillip Bruce]

Hi,

  Anyone with experience in having perl call up mailx and
  at the same time have the body of the messages sent along
  with attachment.

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Subroutine and Functions

[Phillip Bruce]

Hi,

  I like to know if subroutines and Function should be placed
  in any particular order in perl. What is commonly practiced?
  Can anyone give me some examples.

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Error

[Phillip Bruce]

Hi,

 I'm getting the following errror:

Global symbol "$fh" requires explicit package name at
livonia.pl line 22.
Execution of livonia.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Also can some one suggest a better way to handle the IO I'm
wondering about
the globtype and that is why I used the \*FH in my subroutine. 


Below is the code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Modules
use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS;
use FileHandle;

# Constants
my $datafile  = 'everyone.csv';
#my $summary  = 'summary.txt';


#open $handle, "$datafile" or die "$datafile: $!";
sub newopen {
  my $path = shift;
  local *FH; 
  open (FH, $path) || return undef;
  return \*FH;
}


  $fh = newopen("$datafile");

  my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new;

  my $column = '';


  if ($csv->parse($fh)) {
my @field = $csv->fields;
my $count = 0;
for $column (@field) {
  print ++$count, " => ", $column, "\n";
}
print "\n";
  } else {
my $err = $csv->error_input;
print "parse() failed on argument: ", $err, "\n";
  }


  my @sample_input_fields = ('You said, "Hello!"',
 5.67,
 'Surely',
 '',
 '3.14159');
  if ($csv->combine(@sample_input_fields)) {
my $string = $csv->string;
print $string, "\n";
  } else {
my $err = $csv->error_input;
print "combine() failed on argument: ", $err, "\n";
  }



#close(INFILE);
#close(OUTFILE);

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CPAN Question

[Phillip Bruce]

Hi,

  Sometime back some one gave me the path to a config file in
  which told cpan where and what compilers that my systems
uses.
  Does anyone have any ideas to this.

  I get this error:
  /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not
installed

  That is because I'm not using cc but gcc instead and I have
the
  CC environment variable set to gcc.

  Thanks in advance for helping.

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