[Pdx-pm] new error from old program

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Thomas Keller wrote:
> I guess this is why people do testing.
> 
> I wrote an old fashioned perl program several years ago in my own quirky 
> style. But it worked for many years.
> 
> We recently had to rebuild the harddrive and now this program is giving 
> me trouble.
> 
> Here's the warning it gives:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 
> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Scalar/Util.pm 
> line 30.
> Parser for XLS is not installed at 
> /Users/corelab/bin/wr_xls2oligonet.command line 77

 From a reply to a posting by me back in December 2007 chromatic said

Somehow, your Perl installation is finding the pure-Perl version of
Scalar::Util.  You need the XS version.

Installing a new version from the CPAN might help.  I think one of the 
Fedora patches to Perl re-ordered @INC such that Scalar::Util can't find 
its .so file.

I did something along these lines, but can't remember that long ago, and 
it was fixed.


\\||/
Rod
-- 
> 
> The program runs to the point where Spreadsheet::Read calls 
> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. The Parser is installed, but it's dying with 
> that error.
> 
> ### code snippet #####
> my $ref = ReadData ("${source}/${filename}");
> print "version: ", Spreadsheet::Read::Version (),"\n" or carp();
> ## meta data from hardcoded cell locations: contact, customer, alias, 
> faid, contact_phone and contact_email
> my @rows = Spreadsheet::Read::rows($ref->[1]);
> my $customer = 
> $ref->[1]{A2};                                                   ## PI 
> last name
> $data{'CUSTOMER'} = $customer;
> $data{'RUN_DATE'} = $run_date;
> $data{'USER_FIELD1'} = $ref->[1]{B2};                           ## alias
> $data{'USER_FIELD2'} = $ref->[1]{D2};                           ## 
> contact name
> 
> ##### etc #######
> 
> What I thought was a simple reference is now a weak reference, which is 
> apparently not supported. I thought that problem was addressed in 5.6.6.
> But besides that, I don't see why this is a weak reference.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Tom
> Here's the program if anyone has time to look at it.
> 
> 
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