Re: [MacPerl] OpenSRS anyone??

[robinmcf]

"Bill Doucet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am new to the list, new to MacPerl and new to Perl (I can hear the >collective "Oh GREAT!" ) Actually compared to certain other perl lists (Ok news groups) which shall remain nameless, this one is pretty newbie friendly >.... I need a bit of info about an error message I am getting: > ># Global symbol "PATH_LIB" requires explicit package name. >File 'Macintosh HD:*NETWORK >SOFTWARE:webstar:cgi-bin:opensrs:cgi:reg_system.cgi'; Line 9 ># BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted. >File 'Macintosh HD:*NETWORK >SOFTWARE:webstar:cgi-bin:opensrs:cgi:reg_system.cgi'; Line 9 it's kind of hard to do diagnostics without having a look at the source code, but at a rough guess I'd say this error message is generated by the 'strict' pragma (use strict;) because you're trying to set a variable called $PATH_LIB on (or just before) line 9 without having using a 'my()' declaration as in - my ($PATH_LIB)='path:to:somewhere'; the other two lines are thrown up because of the first error. solution : change the variable declaration to proceed hth Robin