[q-lang-users] Avoiding trailing () in CGIs

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Hi,

Maybe this is a FAQ; if so, could someone point me at an appropriate bit of
docs?

I'm playing around with Q for use as web CGIs - scripts build up XML data
and transform it with sablotron prior to printing it out.

The problem is, if I write something like this:

 | #!/usr/local/bin/q
 | #! -q
 | #! -s
 | #! -p .: [list of directories]
 | #!  -cmain ARGS
[snip much programming]
 | def PAGE=3Dstrcat [MimeType, cookies, "\n", BODY];
 | main ARGS =3D writes PAGE ;

then obviously my webpage comes out with `()' on the bottom. This
invalidates the generated RSS stream or XHTML page.

I've worked around this by implementing a Content-Length header, but
ideally don't want it to appear at all. I've looked for more options like
`-q' but nothing says "don't print the final expression value". I can't
readily think of an expression that doesn't return a visible/printable
value.

I've tried qcwrap-ing the script and compiling that, but where I've had
that work, it's filled up /tmp with /tmp/file* files.

Can anyone help? Do I have to bite the bullet and install mod_q?=20

I have:
 | zsh/scr7, potato  9:51AM public_html/ % q --version
 | Q interpreter version 5.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 | Copyright (c) 1991-2004 by Albert Graef

All thoughts welcome :)

TIA,

~Tim
=2D-=20
<http://spodzone.org.uk/>