Hi, Once again i have another problem regarding my message board lol. This time the message board is fine but i have made an admin so that it will read the contents of a text file where all the entries are printed to and display them into a <textarea> so that i can easily remove/change messages. Below is the code for the script...
#!C:/Perl/bin/Perl.exe $password = "andy"; $path = "admin.cgi"; $entries = "C:/localhost/test.txt"; if ($ENV{"REQUEST_METHOD"} eq 'GET') { $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; } else { read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); } @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer); foreach $pair (@pairs) { ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; unless ($name eq "head" || $name eq "foot") { $value =~ s/<([^>]|\n)*>//g; $value =~ s/<//g; $value =~ s/>//g; $value =~ tr/+/ /; } $value =~ s/\n//g; # did sumthing here $in{$name} = $value; } if($in{'action'} eq ""){&login;} elsif($in{'action'} eq "check"){&auth;} elsif($in{'action'} eq "change"){&changeit;} else{&login;} sub login { print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<DANE; <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" Content="No-Cache"> <title>Password Required</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../stylesheets/mboard/body.css"> </head> <body> <p class="subheading" align="center"><font color="#FF0000">Sorry but you need a password to view my message board</font></p> <form method="post" action="$path"> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="330" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr> <td width="163"> <p class="ident">Password: </td> <td width="218"><input type="password" name="pass" size="30"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="163"> </td> <td width="218"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="check"></td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> </form> </body> </html> DANE exit; } sub auth { if ($in{'pass'} eq $password) { &main; exit; } elsif ($in{'pass'} ne $password) { print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html><body text=\"silver\" bgcolor=\"black\">INCORRECT password. LOL.</body>\n"; exit; } } sub main { open(DATA, "$entries"); flock DATA, 2; @data = <DATA>; close(DATA); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<DANE; <html> <head> <title>Administration of Message Board</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <form method="post" action="$path"> <div align="center"> <p><b>Administration Page</b></p> <p align="left"><font size="2">Add or Remove Entries:</font></p> <p align="left"> <textarea name="w00t" cols="70" rows="10">@data</textarea> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="change"> </p> <p align="left"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Change It"> </p> </div> </form> </body> </html> DANE exit; } sub changeit { open(DATA,">$entries"); flock DATA, 2; print DATA "$in{'w00t'}"; close(DATA); &main; exit; } ....the problem that i am faced with is when it prints to the file called test.txt a little symbol comes up where the next line should be. I tried to paste the symbol onto here but it just goes to the next line without showing it. Here is what the text file looks like: Andrew#Hello<<Funny symbol goes here>>James#Nice Board This is how i would LIKE it too look like: Andrew#Hello James#Nice Board ANY HELP YOU COULD SEND ME WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED :o) Andrew