Wow. Am I the ONLY person who requests help on this area of the board?
Alright, let's get on with this. I PM'd Webdude about this, but the Demiurge of the Servers has been silent to by pleas. So I post this to anyone who can answer.
I have been doing all my hashes as $hash{'key'}, such as $formdata{'email_address'}. Now, suddenly the majority of my scripts ceased functioning. At first, I was convinced my gateway to the Perl interpreter was screwy or something. Then I narrowed it down; it's only scripts calling on hashes. The only solution was to drop the single-quotes on the key-values. That is, change it on the script to $formdata{email_address}.
Now, being the self-taught person I am, this goes against every resource I've read, including free scripts from online. Normally, I'd just shrug and do everything in PHP, but this pet project of mine is done in Perl for... well... grins and giggles. I don't mind coding in Perl, and I kind of like it.
What I want to know is, has anyone else run into this problem? Is this going to screw me over again if the system mystically goes back to the old way of reading hash values? Because, between you and me, kids, I'm really tired of relearning the quirks of this place everytime there's a major server reset.
Nix that. I think the problem is with my FTP client. Double-checked my scripts and they work as advertised again, but only if I use my old FTP app. ::sigh::
Perl issue with scripts.
