[sf-perl] Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference

[Vicki Brown]

At 15:01 -0700 07/06/2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
>Really, I'd dump that script.

Really I'd rather not ;-)

At 15:01 -0700 07/06/2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
>That script starts out like:
>
>    #!/usr/bin/perl
>    print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
>
>not a good sign.

You have something against Really Simple SeeGeeEye?

The script works quite well for what I need. I would actually recommend it.
(I did recommend it; that's how it got installed at work so I wouldn't have
to rassle with PHP).  What doesn't work so well, as David points out, is Perl
5.005.paleolithic.*

Happily, the script didn't use the scalar value in any special way, just
open, read, close, so I substituted a plain old vanilla FH and everything is
working.

* not as bad as a former company that was still using 4.18 when I got there
in late 1997. Shudder.
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