RE: [htmltmpl] print_to error

[Timm M. <tm...@ag...>]

At 12:20 PM 5/6/04 -0700, Robert Murray wrote:
>Thanks for the quick reply, Timm.
>
>OK, I can understand why I would have to do that.   But I really don't want
>to do that, because I'm going to send the user an email with the URL later.
>I just want to create the file, which it does, so really my only
>problem/confusion is the error message itself.   I don't understand why I'm
>getting it.  I want it to go away.

Since the return value when using print_to is undef, the print statement 
becomes:

         print undef;

Which causes the exact warning message you are getting.  Your choices are 
to either keep the print_to call out of the print statement, or shut off 
warnings.


>Robert
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timm Murray [mailto:tm...@ag...]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:01 PM
> > To: Robert Murray; htm...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [htmltmpl] print_to error
> >
> >
> > At 11:49 AM 5/6/04 -0700, Robert Murray wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >Now the thing is, my code WORKS FINE.  It creates the page, I
> > can email it,
> > >click on the link in the email and get to it, etc.   It's just
> > bugs me that
> > >when I run the program, I get:
> > >
> > >     Use of uninitialized value in print at make_renewals.pl line 263, <>
> > >line 1.
> > >
> > >Line 263 in my script is:
> > >
> > >         print $spage->output(print_to => *WEBFILE);
> > <snip>
> >
> >
> >  From the HTML::Template documentation:
> >
> >          The return value is undefined when using the "print_to" option.
> >
> > If you want to print to both the the *WEBFILE file handle and to
> > the user,
> > then you need two output() operations:
> >
> >          $spage->output( print_to => * WEBFILE );
> >          print $spage->output();
> >
> > Or, if you only want to print the template to the *WEBFILE file handle,
> > then you do without the second line.
> >