--- "Tillema, Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As written, this script won't work. If you call the
> > 'header()' function directly, you need to
> > import this function from CGI. One way to do it is:
> >
> > use CGI qw/:standard/;
>
> It works in the script I copy and pasted from ... :)
This is very confusing to me because this:
perl -MCGI -e "print header();"
Results in this:
Undefined subroutine &main::header called at -e line 1.
The CGI module is not supposed to export any functions without their being explicitly
requested.
Maybe you have a version that someone else hacked? No matter.
> > Also, since you are already using CGI.pm, why not take
> > advantage of its full functionality?
>
> Because I hate the way it lay's out the HTML! All HTML elements are in
> Capital letters (not xhtml compliant) and the source is layed out in a
> manner that makes it difficult to read. Is there a switch to make CGI.pm
> layout the code in lower-case?
If it's printing out your tags in lower case, you definitely have an issue with
CGI.pm. Check
your version number (print $CGI::VERSION). 2.753 is the latest version and generates
valid XHTML:
C:\>perl -e "use CGI::Pretty qw/:standard/;print
start_html,h1(qw/Heading/),p(qw/test/),end_html"
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en-US"><head><title>Untitled
Document</title>
</head><body>
<h1>
Heading
</h1>
<p>
test
</p>
</body></html>
If you like CGI::Pretty, be sure to upgrade to the latest version (1.05), as earlier
versions tend
to be buggy.
> I appreciate your insight into CGI.pm, but I think I'll just keep doing
> things the way I have (for now).
So long as it works, that's fine by me :)
Cheers,
Curtis Poe
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