What does "print $cgi->header" do?

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There is a line in script we have that I find baffling, it is

print $cgi->header;

To me this seems to be printing the results of the header method of the CGI
module to standard output.

Is something else going on here as well?

Thanks

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Re: What does "print $cgi->header" do?

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Jonathan Mast
wrote:
> There is a line in script we have that I find baffling, it is
>
> print $cgi->header;
>
> To me this seems to be printing the results of the header method of the CGI
> module to standard output.
>
> Is something else going on here as well?
snip

The standard output is the resulting html page when using CGI*.

* http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.35/CGI.pm#CREATING_A_ST ANDARD_HTTP_HEADER:


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Re: What does "print $cgi->header" do?

Jonathan Mast wrote:
> There is a line in script we have that I find baffling, it is
>
> print $cgi->header;
>
> To me this seems to be printing the results of the header method of the CGI
> module to standard output.

Correct.


> Is something else going on here as well?

That depends on what the currently selected filehandle is and what the
values of $\ and $, are.



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