Re: [MacPerl] Wrong Path

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@mailbag.com>]

At 2:10 PM -0500 6/21/99, ken towry wrote:
>     Can you all help me with this? I just don't get it.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> require "parsehtm.pl";
>
> sub formHandler
> {
>     local($tagString,$argString,$endString,%tagDict)
>  = @_;
>
>     local($retVal);
>
>     $tagDict{"METHOD"} = "POST";
>     $tagDict{"ACTION"} = "form.pl";
>
>     $retVal = &stringForTagDict(%tagDict);
>
>     return $retVal
> }
>
> $handlerDict{"FORM"} = "formHandler";
>
> # UNIX #
> # Authors original statement for output to same folder CGI-BIN #
> $output = &parseHtml("f2_pl.htm");
>
> # My statements to the folder TEST one level up in the main directory #
> $htmdir = "/test";
> $htmdir = "../test";
> $htmdir = "/cust/home/a/acc5005/public_html/test";

If you're running this under MacPerl, you need to use Mac path seperators.

You should have something more like $htmdir = "::test" or $htmdir =
"myHD:cust:home:a:acc5005:public_html:test"

> $output = &parseHtml("$htmdir/f2_pl.htm");
>
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print $output;
>
> 1;
>
> When I ececute the script it's supposed to open f2_htm with the parsed
>data, but all I get is a blank page, form.pl. Can anyone tell me what I am
>doing wronG?

If you're running this under Unix, you probably don't have the correct
permissions set on f2_pl.htm.

-Jeff Lowrey



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