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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl Script Post 27205 by oombera on Wednesday 28th of August 2002 03:49:08 PM
Old 08-28-2002
1) I don't understand why the one error says:

syntax error at ./movie.cgi line 18, near "foreach "

since there is no "foreach" in your code, but I'm assuming it's referring to:
Code:
while (<MOVIELIST> ) {
($TITLE,$GENRE,$RATEING,$TIME,$PROD_CO)=split(/:/, $_);
                        td(['$TITLE' , '$GENRE' , '$RATEING' , '$TIME' , '$PROD_CO']),
};

since it's basically the same in functionality as a "foreach" loop.

2) I don't see anything wrong with the above part, except that I don't know if the parenthesis around <MOVIELIST> matter, since I've never used them. I've always coded:

while <MOVIELIST> {

Also, you may need to take that semicolon out which follows the bracket that closes the while loop.
Code:
while (<MOVIELIST> ) {
 ...
};   # this semicolon may be causing the error

3) I'm curious - lines such as:
td(['$TITLE' , '$GENRE' , '$RATEING' , '$TIME' , '$PROD_CO'])
are you passing these values to a function called td() ?

Why not just use:
Code:
print "<table border=0>
 <tr align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">
  <th>Title</th>
  <th>Genre</th>
  <th>Rating</th>
  <th>Time</th>
  <th>Production Company</th>
 </tr>";

while <MOVIELIST> {
 ($TITLE,$GENRE,$RATEING,$TIME,$PROD_CO)=split(/:/);
 print " <tr align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">
  <td>$TITLE</td><td>$GENRE</td><td>$RATEING</td><td>$TIME</td><td>$PROD_CO</td>
 </tr>";

print "</table>";

 

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NAME

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	      attempt to resume a partially downloaded stream

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