[misterhouse-users] Weather.pl problem

[Bill S. <bs...@sy...>]

Hi,

New MH user (one day), and new to perl (again, one day), which will
probably
show why I couldn't solve the following in an easier manner.  I found that
the Weather.pl file wouldn't correctly download weather information if the
configuration file's city name had a space in it (e.g. Stevenson Ranch).

In the .pl file after the setting of $CityPage, I tried adding a $CityPage
~= s/ /%20/g  Which worked when I logged the command, but didn't actually
update the $CityPage variable when used in the $WeatherURL variable (e.g.,
the spaces weren't exchanged with %20).  I think something along these
lines
should work, but I presume it not working has to do with my limited
knowledge of PERL.

I wound up adding a ZipCode item to the coniguration file and updating the
weather.pl to use the CityName for storing the output file but the ZipCode
for the actual lookup.  It's all working, but my first (attempted) solution
seems easier.  Can anyone point out where I went wrong with it?

Thanks,
Bill