Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: future reserved word

Dec 30, 2016, 11:53 AM

delicia

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Dec 30, 2016, 11:53 AM

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future reserved word

following line in db.cgi:

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elsif ($in{'massmail'})      { if ($per_massmail) { &massmail; }            else { &html_unauth(massmail); } }

ran a perl checker and got following

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Unquoted string "massmail" may clash with future reserved word at (line number above)

is it because i'm using input form variable massmail and i have a sub massmail ?

Dec 30, 2016, 11:10 PM

Andy

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Dec 30, 2016, 11:10 PM

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What exactly are you trying to pass along here?

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&html_unauth(massmail);

Is it a string? Is so, it should be quoted:

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&html_unauth("massmail");

That's what it's complaining about :)

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Dec 31, 2016, 11:12 AM

delicia

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Dec 31, 2016, 11:12 AM

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that solved the problem. all the other lines just had html_unauthorized; instead of html_unauthorized(whatever). i have no idea why (massmail) got in there. thanks!

Dec 31, 2016, 11:38 PM

Andy

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Dec 31, 2016, 11:38 PM

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Probably a copy and paste error :) I expect the reason you didn't get a fatal error, is that you have a function with the same name? (judging by the code a little bit further back, where you DO call a function)

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