Re: [MacPerl] Interesting problem

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.3636297E.59E2@flash.net>, "Mark Manning/Muniz Eng."
<markem@flash.net> wrote:

>Ok, so after hours of aggravation I finally realized that somehow,
>someway I'd managed to change all of the "$theReply .= <<END_HTML;"
>stuff into "$addOn .= <<END_HTML;" statements.  After changing them back
>the program worked ok.
>
>Now, first off, I went back and forth between Linux and MacPerl on this
>because it allowed me to trace the problem on two systems.  So this
>isn't just a MacPerl problem.  But what I'm wondering about is why did
>debug say the problem was at the top of the program when there really
>wasn't a problem at all with the code?  The problem was that I had a
>different variable name used throughout the program and so the program
>returned nothing.
>
>Any ideas?  The thing is fixed and working properly, but I was wondering
>if there is some sort of a reason why it did this.  Thanks!  :-)

Just a tip: if you "use strict" then you will be warned about cases like
this, when you try to use a variable that you didn't declare first. As you
can see, it could save you a whole lot of debugging time.
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