Error: requires explicit package name

2002-08-30 Thread t 

Hello:)

i am working on a script and have come across a problem. if i call a variable from the 
preceeding
form, it works correctly, BUT, if i declare a variable within the script, then try to 
use it as
the To: fiels in an e-mail, it tells me that 
 Global symbol $auto requires explicit package name

i have been looking through my perl and cgi books to try to figure out what this 
means, but am
totally at a loss. 

i have declared it two different ways, and both ways it comes back with the same error:

 if ($Country eq Argentina)
{my $auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
}
and
 if ($Country eq Argentina)
{$auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
}

i figure i am probably missing one little thing, but i can't figure out what it is. 
Anyone got any
ideas? This is the last part of my script that i need to get working, as it will be a 
huge
if/elsif statement that i will end up putting into a module.

thanks:)

thia

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Re: Error: requires explicit package name

2002-08-30 Thread Felix Geerinckx 

on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:58:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T) wrote:

  Global symbol $auto requires explicit package name

[...]
 
  if ($Country eq Argentina)
  {my $auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
  }
 and
  if ($Country eq Argentina)
  {$auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
  }
 

A lexical my declaration is only visible in the enclosing block.

You should write:

my $auto;
if ($Country eq Argentina) {
$auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' );
}

See M-J. Dominus' Coping with Scoping article for an excellent 
introduction to scoping at

http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html

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Re: Error: requires explicit package name

2002-08-30 Thread t 

Felix

Thanks! That was just what i needed:)

thia


--- Felix Geerinckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 on Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:58:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T) wrote:
 
   Global symbol $auto requires explicit package name
 
 [...]
  
   if ($Country eq Argentina)
   {my $auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
   }
  and
   if ($Country eq Argentina)
   {$auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ); 
   }
  
 
 A lexical my declaration is only visible in the enclosing block.
 
 You should write:
 
 my $auto;
 if ($Country eq Argentina) {
 $auto = $q-param( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' );
 }
 
 See M-J. Dominus' Coping with Scoping article for an excellent 
 introduction to scoping at
 
   http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html
 
 -- 
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