Any takers on this one:)
> Subject: The below CGI script creates my dataform.html but when I
> open it theres no contents;ie Candidate: $candidate etc
>
> Hello Everyone,
> Any hints on how to send data into this file "dataform.html file" to
> append and update its contents..
> I'm trying to write code to capture the values from a URL address line and
> have them sent
> to a file to be entered and appended for me to view later.
> The below code is what I'm trying to debug,because I can't get these
> values "John,Technician & BSdegree"
> from the following URL string
> "candidate=John&position=Technician&education=BSdegree"
> to get added to the dataform.html file.
> This script creates the file "dataform.html file" but no values are
> contained...
> Any ideas,....
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> use strict;
> sub url_decode { # capture the values from the URL command line
> my $text = shift();
> $text =~ tr/\+/ /; # substitute the + for spaces
> $text =~ s/%([a-f0-9][a-f0-9])/chr( hex( $1 ) )/eg; # clean up URL
> string
>
> use CGI;
>
> # set my paramenters
> my $q = new CGI;
> my $candidate = $q->param('candidate');
> my $position = $q->param('position');
> my $education = $q->param('education');
>
> # send the values from my URL command line to the dataform.html to be
> added and appended:
>
> open(OUT, "> dataform.html") or die "Can't open file: $!";
> print "Candidate: $candidate\n";
> print "Position: $position\n";
> print "Education: $Education\n\n";
> close OUT;
>
>
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