open a file and print out to webbrowser

[grashoper]

I can't figure why this isn't working, what am I doing wrong?

my $sitelist_file="<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt"
open DATA, $sitelist_file;
my @lines=<DATA>;
close DATA;
for each my $line (@lines){
$response->write($line);
}

[Sidhekin]

Ah. PerlScript. :)

One problem is with your filename string:

my $sitelist_file="<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt"
print $sitelist_file;
__END__
<c:supportwebntentsitelist.txt

Double-quoted strings treat backslash as starting escape sequences. Use single quotes instead:

my $sitelist_file='<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt';
print $sitelist_file;
__END__
<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt

A more fundamental problem is that you're not checking if your open succeeded. A standard check would have revealed this problem to you:

open DATA, $sitelist_file or die "Cannot open '$sitelist_file': '$!'";

... that is, if you know where to find the error log. It's been too long since I looked at ASP and PerlScript.

Oh, and you have a syntax error. Typo? for each should be foreach, or simply for:

for my $line (@lines){
  $response->write($line);
}

[throop]

When I'm getting no output whatsoever to a webbrowser, the usual reason is that I've forgotten to print a header. Try

use strict;
use CGI::Pretty;
use Carp qw(croak);
my $sitelist_file='<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt';
my $title = 'My Lines';
open my $data, '<', $sitelist_file
  or croak "No open on $sitelist_file";
my $text = do{local $/; <$data>};
close $data;
print header(),
      start_html({title=>$title});
foreach my $line (split "\n", $text){
  $response->write($line);
};
print end_html;

or even more compactly

use strict;
use CGI::Pretty;
use Perl6::Slurp;
print header(),
      start_html(-title=>'My Lines');
foreach (split "\n", slurp '<c:\supportweb\content\sitelist.txt'){
  $response->write($_)}
print end_html;

Not tested I'm interpreting you to mean that you're writing a cgi-bin program or some such. Unlike static webpages (.html pages) they need to have the magic

  Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

or similar.

throop

hat-tip to Perl Best Practices

[Sidhekin]

I'm betting that's ASP with PerlScript, not CGI.

Note the $response->write. Ah, nostalgia. :)