[sf-perl] perl on a mac

Mon Nov 17 11:39:04 PST 2008

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Walt Sanders
<wsanders at pacificwebdesign.org> wrote:
[snip]
> The html is mostly done with print commands or with >> sections.  Here is
> the toping:
>
> -----------------------
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use CGI qw( :standard );
> use Fcntl qw( :flock );
>
> print( header() );
> print( start_html( 'ID Yourself' ) );
>
> print("<body bgcolor='#00ffff' onLoad='document.regform.name.focus();'>");
> print("<p><br><br>");
>
> etc.
> ------------------------------
>
>
> All rather simple minded, but it works fine everywhere if I don't try it on
> my Mac!  If I run something without html, like
>
>     #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>     print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
>     print "Hello, world";
>
> it works just fine.  I get just the two lines printed.

You still haven't said *how* the script that outputs HTML doesn't
work.  Does it not return what you expected?  Does it return an error?
 What is the expected output vs. the actual output?