[MacPerl] Porting Un*x perl scripts to MacPerl for CGI

[Kent Cowgill <kentc@intersites.com>]

Hello.

I looked everywhere for as much information as I could find, but I've not
found any resources to help me with some specific problems I've been having
trying to port a perl script, so any input is appreciated.

I've gotten ahold of a script by Matt Wright called simplesearch.pl that
works wonderfully on my linux box.  However, when I tried to run it on a
Macintosh Web Server, I ran into a few problems.  Most notable are those
with using such things I take for granted in linux such as `ls` and working
with directories & file listings and so forth.

Specifically, I've got an array that contains such things as:

Power HD:Stuff Ä:Home.html
Power HD:Stuff Ä:line_test.html
Power HD:Working Ä:PrepPage_demo.html

(plus quite a few other files that slipped through a -T test (non-text files))

When I try to iterate through this array and 'slurp' the contents into
another array using a construct such as this:

foreach $FILE (@FILES)
{
    $count = 0;
    open(FILE,"$FILE");
    @LINES = <FILE>;
    close(FILE);

[- irrelevant code snipped -]

}

... something seems to break somewhere.  I generally only get results from
the first one or two files (i'm searching for strings within these files).
I think that what's happening as that MacPerl might be choking on the
non-text files that slip through the -T... but I'm not exactly sure, as
I've only been experimenting with MacPerl for only a few weeks now.

Has anyone else come across a situation like this?  Can anyone tell me what
I should do as a workaround?

Any and all input is welcome.

Thanks,


-Kent

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