Re: [MacPerl] chunk 27 error ???

[Dave Shaffer <dshaffer@classroom.net>]

>I'm writing a script using MacPerl to check the validity of local hrefs
>in html files
>for a CD-ROM my company  is producing.   I loop through all directories
>and their
>subdirectories (600mb+)  and parse all .htm files...

>My question is:  what is a "chunk 27 error"?


>When I did this:

>       <snip>
>             foreach $file (<*.htm>) {
>                open (THEFILE,$file) || die "Could not open $file"
>                while (<THEFILE>) {
>                   s/\n//g;
>                   while (/<A *HREF *\= *"*([^>]+)"* *> *(.+?)<\/A>/gi)
>{
                      $numlinks++;
>       </snip>

>I got this error:
 
>     <snip>
>          # Could not open  TOC.HTM.
>         File '...'; Line 272 # <THEFILE> chunk 27        <---
>         :/CIVILWAR/LIBCONG/ TOC.HTM
>      </snip>


>Any ideas??

>thank you
>  dave

After investigating this a little futher, I found that the filename 
that caused this error had a space in front of it... 

The filename is valid under the mac OS.

 Is this a MacPerl bug???  

dave