a little more info, i'm using the following version: v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
Chad On 8/18/05, Chad Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am having hopefully what is a simple error, but I've been racking > my brain for a couple of days now. I've newly set up the > Template::Extract module on my OS X machine at home, installed what I > thought were all the necessary modules, based on the error messages > generated from the includes, and tried the example at: > www.perladvent.org/2003/5th > ----------------------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/perl > > # turn on perl's safety features > use strict; > use warnings; > > # create a new template extractor > use Template::Extract; > my $extract = Template::Extract->new(); > > # get the source of the page > use LWP::Simple qw(get); > my $document = get "http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/"; > or die "Can't get page"; > > # define the template > my $template = << '.'; > <a href="city.html?n=[% ... %]">[% city %] > </a></td><td class=r>[% time %]</td> > . > > # extract the data > my $data = $extract->extract($template, $document); > > # print it out so we can see we've got what we want to > use Data::Dumper; > print Dumper $data; > ------------------------------------------------- > > When I run this, I get a single line of output and no error: > > >>>$VAR1 = undef > > when it should print something like: > > >>>$VAR1 = { > 'city' => 'Addis Ababa', > 'time' => 'Thu 3:18 AM' > }; > > Any ideas what could be wrong? I've verified that LWP works and > returns the html of the target page. This isn't the first test I've > tried, but seems to be the most concise and potentially least > error-prone, but I am always getting the same "error". > > thanks in advance, > Chad > _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
