Re: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please.

The quick fix is:

# CGI returns the filename and the filehandle in the same variable, gi
+ving the 
# name when treated as a string, and the handle otherwise. Therefore w
+e need
# to stringify $var explicitly, because Storable can't store a filehan
+dle.
$db{"1"}{"pic1"} = "$var";
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I suggest you leave the comment in place, because it's a pretty unusual circumstance.

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Re^2: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please. by lepetitalbert (Abbot) on Apr 27, 2006 at 02:57 UTC
Hi Monks Yes I'm uploading 3 pics. this works `$db{"1"}{"pic1"} = "$var";` Thanks The code is `for ($i=1; $i < 4; $i++) { $tmp = "pic" . $i; my $filename = $query->param($tmp); $db{$n}{$tmp} = "$filename"; $upload_filehandle = $query->upload($tmp); open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename"; binmode UPLOADFILE; while ( <$upload_filehandle> ){ print UPLOADFILE; } close UPLOADFILE; } store \%db, $dbfile ;` [download] Thanks Have a nice day "There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely ignorance." Socrates	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please. by davidrw (Prior) on Apr 27, 2006 at 04:31 UTC
~~i'd guess that `scalar $var` instead of `"$var"` would work, too~~ .. dunno (don't think i personally have a preference, though maybe some people would) which is "better" (assuming the former works) Update: see below	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 27, 2006 at 06:20 UTC
Why would being in scalar context stringify a value? A glob in scalar context is still a glob.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please. by davidrw (Prior) on Apr 27, 2006 at 13:34 UTC
Hmm .. i guess it doesn't. (I tried OP's code w/`$db{"1"}{"pic1"} = scalar $var;` and it gave the same error ...) Well, my line of thought was that `$var = join "", split(// , $var);` worked because the split's 2nd arg gets treated in scalar context .. So instead, does that mean that split just happens to stringify it's 2nd argument and that's why it worked as OP wanted?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: CGI and Storable : explain me this, please. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 27, 2006 at 15:43 UTC


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