On 10/4/01 10:20 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I'm not really clear on how PERL works when writing HTML.
> 
> when writing to a console, you simply use \n to move to the next line
> but using the same code in a browser I get everything on the same line.
> 
> is there a way that when writing to HTML, the \n gets converted to <br>
> or 
> do you have to explicitly print out every <br>?
> 
> and one more question, here is a piece of my program
> 
> 
> use Win32::ODBC;
> 
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "<HTML>\n";
> print "<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>\n";
> 
> $DSN = "WIP";
> #print "Opening database...\n";
> if (!($db = new Win32::ODBC($DSN))){
>   print "Error connecting to $DSN\n";
>   print "Error: " . Win32::ODBC::Error() . "\n";
>   exit;
> }



Use HERE DOCS -

 print <<_HereIBe;

Content-type: text/html

<HTML>
<HEAD>
...

HereIBe


Also - are you checking to see if there are security/file premissions errors
or that the file is not already OPNE?


HTH;
-Sx- 



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