Re: Tidy piping in perl

On Sat, 22 May 1999, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> Hi,
> I wrote a perl script like
> 
> --cut--
> open( TIDY, "| tidy") || print "Couldn't open TIDY:$!";
> 
> print TIDY <<"_END_";
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> <P>some bad </h2>markup</I></HTML></BODY>
> _END_
> 
> close(TIDY) || die print "couldn't close TIDY:$!";
> --cut--
> 
> And i get the errormessage
> "couldn't close TIDY:1 at tidy2.pl line 9."
> 
> Normally a script like this works fine, but with Tidy it doesn't.
> 
> Why? What's wrong with my script?
> 
> I'm using Active Perl 5.005_03 (win32) and Tidy (vers 14th April 1999)

Sorry, I regret to say that I am not a Perl hacker and am unable
to diagnose the problem.

Regards,

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Received on Monday, 24 May 1999 20:39:30 UTC