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perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:04:14 GMT

Hi,
I have some issue with perl modules,i have perl 5.8.3 & installed DateCalc 3.2 & Calc 5.4 module, but when i execute my primary package on apache server ,log shows some message as follows

Subroutine Date::Calc::Language redefined at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Date/Calc.pm line 103.
Subroutine Date::Calc::Languages redefined at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Date/Calc.pm line 103.
Subroutine Date::Calc::ISO_LC redefined at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Date/Calc.pm line 103.
Subroutine Date::Calc::ISO_UC redefined at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Date/Calc.pm line 103.
Subroutine Date::Calc::Version redefined at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Date/Calc.pm line 103.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at Pace.pm line 98.
Undefined subroutine &Date::DateCalc::check_date called at Pace.pm line 543.

no element found at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187

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Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:23:45 GMT

Hi:

The 'Date::Calc' module documentation notes that:

/* begin quote */

"In the current implementation of this package, the selected language is stored in a global variable.

Therefore, when you are using a threaded Perl, this may cause undesired side effects (of one thread always selecting the language for ALL OTHER threads as well).

/* end quote */

Hence, I believe that that describes the first set of messages you report.

For the remainder, you need to examine things further.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:51:32 GMT

Hi james,
Actually i am new to perl,what u brought to my attention is acceptable but what shud i do to resolve the issue..??

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:00:02 GMT

Hi James,
Eagerly waiting for your help

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:05:44 GMT

Hi (again) Cyclops:

You need to look (at least) at your 'Pace.pm' module around line 98 and also lie 543. The "uninitialized value" is a warning, but the undefined subroutine constitutes an error.

&Date::DateCalc::check_date

...should be:

&Date::Calc::check_date( ...

...or:

Date::DateCalc::check_date( ...

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:13:30 GMT

Hi james,
Sorry for the delay, I tried the things as u suggested but still its showing the same error...
I still couldnt figure it out what is the error..also i think check_date function is of Calc.pm package,then why its showing error with DateCal.pm package..

waiting for ur reply.

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:02:05 GMT

Hi (again):

> i think check_date function is of Calc.pm package,then why its showing error with DateCal.pm package..

I don't know what module 'Calc.pm' is. In your initial post you mentioned "DateCalc 3.2 & Calc 5.4" which is interesting since the 'Date::Calc' module's current version is in fact 5.4. I can only presume that 'Calc.pm' is something indigenous to your local installation.

My previous post may have confused things. I _should have_ written the following:

You need to look (at least) at your 'Pace.pm' module around line 98 and also lie 543. The "uninitialized value" is a warning, but the undefined subroutine constitutes an error.

&Date::DateCalc::check_date

...should be:

&Date::Calc::check_date( ...

...or:

Date::Calc::check_date( ...

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:21:18 GMT

Hi James,
i tried to look into Pace.pm package i didnt got any clue.As i said before i am new to perl , so your help is very much expected
i still cudnt figure it out.

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:41:11 GMT

hi james,
Can u please tell me what are the valid versions of DateCalc & Calc modules for perl 5.8.3

waiting for ur reply.

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:34:00 GMT

Hi ,
I tried to debug my perl file, i found the following errors
may be some problem with DateCalc module's month_name_tab function.

Please help me out.

DB<13>
Pace::getDateLabel(Pace.pm:338): my $startMon=substr(month_name_tab(substr($_[0],4,2)),0,3);
DB<13>
Undefined subroutine &Pace::month_name_tab called at Pace.pm line 338.
Pace::getDateLabel(20090706,20090706) called at /utilities/intranet/apache/cgi-bin/pace/plotfsusage.pl line 148
main::initialise() called at /utilities/intranet/apache/cgi-bin/pace/plotfsusage.pl line 120
main::main() called at /utilities/intranet/apache/cgi-bin/pace/plotfsusage.pl line 257
Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart,
use O inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h O to get additional info.

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:47:25 GMT

I think you're better helped at PerlMonks.org
They are specialized in (beginners) problems like this

perl-5.8.3 is rather old. perl-5.8.9 or perl-5.10.0 are the more current versions.

Date::Calc 5.4 is recent and fine. I never heard of the DateCalc module.

Don't use '&' in front of subroutine calls, unless you know why you want that. In 99.99% of the cases you do not want to use this perl4-like syntax.

Use strict and warnings. Start you script like this:

--8<---
#!/opt/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

-->8---

and perl will show you where what variable caused problems

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: perl DateCalc & Calc issue

cyclops_1 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:11:33 GMT

thanks all and sorry for the delayed reply.
Actually i uninstalled the Calc modules removed all the Calc.pm & DateCalc.pm and again reinstalled those modules.
It worked out for me and my application is running fine.
Thanks all.