You said:
while(<PAGES>) {
push(@pages, $_); #semi colon added
}
Perl doesn't care if there's a semicolon there. Generally it's OK not to have one at the end of a block.
But I'd say that the error messages from Perl are a bit cryptic from time to time; for a newbie, it can be somewhat hard to figure out what went wrong.
What you can do is to forget, first, that this is a CGI. Comment out the "use CGI::Carp" and put in instead
use Carp;
use diagnostics;
and then run Perl in check-mode:
perl -cw myScript.pl and look at the output. You'll get a moderately less cryptic output that starts:
Scalar value @filenames[$i] better written as $filenames[$i] at xx.pl
+line 71 (#1)
(W syntax) You've used an array slice (indicated by @) to select a
single element of an array. Generally it's better to ask for a sc
+alar
value (indicated by $). The difference is that $foo[&bar] always
behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluati
+ng its
argument, while @foo[&bar] behaves like a list when you assign to
+it,
and provides a list context to its subscript, which can do weird t
+hings
if you're expecting only one subscript.
On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the array
element as a list, you need to look into how references work, beca
+use
Perl will not magically convert between scalars and lists for you.
+ See
perlref.
Possible unintended interpolation of @filenames in string at xx.pl lin
+e 71.
Scalar found where operator expected at xx.pl line 72, near "] $title"
+ (#2)
(S) The Perl lexer knows whether to expect a term or an operator.
+ If it
sees what it knows to be a term when it was expecting to see an
operator, it gives you this warning. Usually it indicates that an
operator or delimiter was omitted, such as a semicolon.
Global symbol "@pages" requires explicit package name at xx.pl line 11
+.
Global symbol "@filenames" requires explicit package name at xx.pl lin
+e 12.
Global symbol "@titles" requires explicit package name at xx.pl line 1
+3.
This should start you on your way to fixing the problem. The "Global symbol...requires explicit package name" can be cured by declaring your variables using my.