perl program giving errors

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This is the error that I am getting in the apache error log file syntax error at C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/cgi-bin/date.cgi line 12, near "print "</body"\r Wed Mar 14 20:26:24 2012 error client 127.0.0.1 Search pattern not terminated at C:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/cgi-bin/date.cgi line 13.\r The code for the date.cgi file is as below

#!/usr/bin/perl

# print CGI header
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

# now print the time
print "<html> <head>\n";
print "<title>Current Date and Time</title>\n";
print "</head> <body>\n";
print "<h1>The date is now</h1>\n";
print "<p>$time = (localtime),"</p>";
print "</body>\n"
print "</html>\n";
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Can some one tell me what is that I am doing wrong.Thanks Ajit

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Re: perl program giving errors by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:11 UTC
This line has misplaced quote, fix it `- print "<p>$time = (localtime),"</p>"; + print "<p>", scalar(localtime),</p>";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: perl program giving errors by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 14, 2012 at 15:12 UTC
Line 11 misses a double quote.	[reply]
Re: perl program giving errors by thargas (Deacon) on Mar 14, 2012 at 17:52 UTC
and line 12 is missing a trailing semi-colon	[reply]
Re: perl program giving errors by mendeepak (Scribe) on Mar 15, 2012 at 05:45 UTC
<font color=red">print "</body>\n" semi colon at the end of line is missing For future programming do put -w in the shebang line `#!/usr/bin/perl -w` so that errors will be shown to an extend	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perl program giving errors by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 15, 2012 at 09:06 UTC
You probably mean "warnings", not "errors".	[reply]
Re^3: perl program giving errors by mendeepak (Scribe) on Mar 19, 2012 at 09:24 UTC
yup	[reply]


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