Re: perl panic

[Stephen Swan <sswan@INDWES.EDU>]

Thanks a lot!

I forgot about the possibility of bad data entering.  I had to fix the bad
data stored in our database.

Stephen Swan
Indiana Wesleyan University

At 09:35 AM 10/2/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > Has anyone ever gotten this error from perl?  How do I resolve it?
> >
> > panic: frexp at IWfacschd.cgi.exp line 366.
> >
> > line 366:           $fte = sprintf("%2.4f", $fte);
> > $fte is a returned number from the database.
>
>Do you have taint checking on?  I'm guessing that it's squawking about a
>tainted variable that has to be cleaned up.
>
>Can we see the rest of the code, too?
>
>xoxo,
>Andy
>
>--
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