Gossamer Forum
Home : General : Perl Programming :

Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.

Quote Reply
Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name. In reply to
That code is longer and slower than it needs to be. All you need is:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

@html = ('index.apricot.html',
'index.butter.html',
'index.garden.html',
'index.greek.html',
'index.maple.html',
'index.raspberry.html',
'index.strawberry.html',
'index.natural.html');


my $rand = $html[rand @html];

open (H, "</home/fba/beta.rachelsorganic.co.uk/$rand");
while (<H>) { print; }
close H;

That will work with any version of perl. If it doesn't you screwed up your perl installation.

Also you don't need the int in [int rand @html] seeing as you aren't dealing with an integer Tongue

Last edited by:

RedRum: Nov 13, 2001, 5:35 AM
Subject Author Views Date
Thread Illegal variable name. Wil 20842 Nov 12, 2001, 8:23 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19692 Nov 12, 2001, 8:48 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19684 Nov 12, 2001, 8:53 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19660 Nov 12, 2001, 8:55 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19832 Nov 12, 2001, 8:58 AM
Post Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19540 Nov 12, 2001, 9:00 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Stealth 19613 Nov 12, 2001, 9:06 AM
Post Re: [Chewbaca] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19564 Nov 12, 2001, 9:11 AM
Thread Re: [Chewbaca] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19663 Nov 12, 2001, 9:12 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 20103 Nov 12, 2001, 9:16 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19745 Nov 12, 2001, 9:21 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Chaz 19741 Nov 12, 2001, 9:35 AM
Thread Re: [CP] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19629 Nov 12, 2001, 9:45 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19566 Nov 12, 2001, 9:49 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19675 Nov 12, 2001, 9:52 AM
Post Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19493 Nov 12, 2001, 9:55 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 20088 Nov 12, 2001, 9:52 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19591 Nov 12, 2001, 9:54 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19713 Nov 12, 2001, 9:56 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19671 Nov 12, 2001, 10:04 AM
Post Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19464 Nov 12, 2001, 10:08 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19530 Nov 12, 2001, 10:11 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 19562 Nov 12, 2001, 10:21 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19529 Nov 12, 2001, 10:26 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16225 Nov 12, 2001, 1:07 PM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16133 Nov 12, 2001, 1:47 PM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16118 Nov 13, 2001, 2:28 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16227 Nov 13, 2001, 5:04 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16231 Nov 13, 2001, 5:28 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16054 Nov 13, 2001, 5:35 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16049 Nov 13, 2001, 5:43 AM
Post Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 15983 Nov 13, 2001, 5:43 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16146 Nov 13, 2001, 5:47 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16089 Nov 13, 2001, 6:09 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16113 Nov 13, 2001, 6:15 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16100 Nov 13, 2001, 6:30 AM
Thread Re: Illegal variable name.
Wil 16002 Nov 13, 2001, 8:42 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16227 Nov 13, 2001, 8:47 AM
Post Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 15986 Nov 13, 2001, 9:01 AM
Post Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Chaz 16052 Nov 13, 2001, 6:11 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
sponge 16160 Nov 12, 2001, 2:36 PM
Thread Re: [PerlFreak] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16321 Nov 12, 2001, 3:17 PM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
sponge 16193 Nov 13, 2001, 11:10 AM
Post Re: [PerlFreak] Illegal variable name.
Paul 15969 Nov 13, 2001, 11:46 AM
Post Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19595 Nov 12, 2001, 9:36 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16056 Nov 13, 2001, 11:52 AM
Thread Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 16058 Nov 13, 2001, 12:11 PM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 16117 Nov 13, 2001, 12:19 PM
Post Re: [RedRum] Illegal variable name.
Wil 15939 Nov 13, 2001, 12:23 PM