In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Blezien) writes:
>Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Mike Blezien wrote:
>>
>>> What does this type of error indicate, I never encountered this type
>>> of error before.
>>>
>>> Modification of a read-only value attempted at
>>> /home/www/cgi/somescript.cgi line 151.
>>>
>>> <code snip>
>>> my($sparam);
>>>
>>> foreach $sparam (param()) { ${$sparam} = param($sparam); } # line 151
>>
>> Maybe it's that; hard to tell since you don't give more context. But
>> what you are trying to do, i.e. using symbolic references, is
>> unnecessary and considered bad programming practice.
[snip]
>Thanks for the suggestion. We've used this type of coding scheme before with no
>problems in the past, but wasn't aware it was considered "bad programming"
>practice.
Since it caused you an error you didn't understand, you now know
one of the reasons why :-)
Consider what that line would do if you had a parameter with the
name "1" (digit one).
You should *always* "use strict" in your code.
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