OK, you're totally right, I should have printed my code 8^( I figured that it would be totally easy... then I remembered that I'm a noobie and everything is confusing 8^)
First, let me say that I'm trying to get work to buy me a Perl book, but money at the state is tight these days. I've even gone to the *library* and they don't have the Perl books. 8^( Oh well, that's what the Perl community is for, right? When the line below is commented out the only thing that gets output to the browser window is the Start Over link # #push @Draw, [ split /\|/ ] while <FILE>; # Ok, the two parts that I'm having trouble with are: 1) getting the file data into an array (which you've helped me with so far)... 2) printing that array out in the table at the bottom of the code. #!/usr/local/bin/perl #include <stdlib.h> use CGI qw(:standard); use strict; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print qq{ <p><a href="cards2.cgi">Start Over</a></p> }; my @Deck; # The whole deck, orderd my @Draw; # The current, shuffled deck my @playedCards = param("playedCardsHidden") || ""; my @playedCardsCheckbox = param("playedCardsCheckbox") || ""; my @discardCards = param("discardCardsHidden") || ""; my @discardCardsCheckbox = param("discardCardsCheckbox") || ""; my $iterate; my $random; my $control; my $counter = 0; my $valueName; my $turnCounter = param("turnCounter") || 0; # if the update button has NOT been pressed. # e.g. when the page is just run for the first time. if (param("update") eq "no" || param("update") eq undef){ open (DECK,"deck.txt"); # when the line below is commented out # the only thing that gets output to the browser window # is the Start Over link (yes, when I uncomment the one # below, I comment out the @Deck = <DECK>; line.) #push @Draw, [ split /\|/ ] while <FILE>; # this (as you well know) just gets each line in my file @Deck = <DECK>; close DECK; @Draw = @Deck; &Randomize (\@Draw); # Run this code whenever the "End turn" button is pressed }else{ $turnCounter += 1; # Perform all the actions related to # @inPlay # Perform all the actions related to # @inDiscard # Perform all the actions realted to # @Draw # end of the "update" if/else loop } sub Randomize { $random = shift; for ($iterate = @$random; --$iterate; ) { $control = int rand ($iterate + 1); if ($iterate == $control) { next; } @$random[$iterate, $control] = @$random[$control, $iterate]; } } ################################### # Now we start the output section # ################################### print qq| <html> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <form name="form" method="get" action="cards2.cgi"> <input type="hidden" name="update" value="yes"> <input type="submit" value="End Phase"> <div style="font-size:2em;">Draw Deck</div> <table border="1" align="left"> <tr> <th>#</th> <th>Card Name</th> <th>Play</th> <th>Discard</th> </tr> |; #This prints out the randomized array #my $index=0; #foreach my $item (@Draw) { #$index++; #print "List index $index:\n"; #foreach my $item (@{$item}) #{print "\t$item\n"} #} foreach my $item (@Draw){ $valueName = $item; print "<tr>\n"; print "\t<td>$counter</td>\n"; print "\t<td>$item</td>\n"; print "\t<td><input type='checkbox' name='playedCardsCheckbox' value='$counter'></td>\n"; print "\t<td><input type='checkbox' name='discardCardsCheckbox' value='$counter'></td>\n"; print "</tr>\n"; $counter++; } print "</table>\n"; print qq{ <table border="1"> <tr> <th>In Play</th> <th>In Discard</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cards in play are listed here</td> <td>Cards in the discard pile are listed here</td> </tr> </table> }; print qq{ </form> </body> </html> } _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]