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in reply to Dynamic Directory Index help

you are missing a bunch of variable names. Every time you see my there should be a variable name following. For example: 
my ="/usr/local/apache/htdocs/projects/"; 
my ="http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/projects/";

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should look like this line does 
my @dirs=readdir PRJD;

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add the following to the top of your script and you will get more helpful error messages 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings 
use strict

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check out this book (Learning Perl) by our own merlyn for a good place to start with perl.

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Re^2: Dynamic Directory Index help
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 07, 2004 at 02:42 UTC
    Thanks for your reply. I have my output here: 
    [Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Unquoted str
+ing "sh" may clash with future reserved word at /www/cameo/htdocs/ind
+ex.pl line 8. 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Unquoted str
+ing "sh" may clash with future reserved word at /www/cameo/htdocs/ind
+ex.pl line 25. 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Unquoted str
+ing "sh" may clash with future reserved word at /www/cameo/htdocs/ind
+ex.pl line 26. 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Backslash fo
+und where operator expected at /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl line 30, ne
+ar ""<a href=\\$ 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] \t(Missing o
+perator before \\?) 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] syntax error
+ at /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl line 4, near "my =" 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] syntax error
+ at /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl line 17, near "my =" 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] syntax error
+ at /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl line 27, near "my =" 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] syntax error
+ at /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl line 30, near ""<a href=\\ "\\" 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Execution of
+ /www/cameo/htdocs/index.pl aborted due to compilation errors. 
[Wed Oct 06 09:53:06 2004] [error] [client 192.168.2.254] Premature en
+d of script headers: index.pl

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    Do you know which varibles I would need to have? I am not a coder at all. I try but just never grasped it.
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