Cheers - L~R

good call L~R!

on another note.. not sure I deserved the -- for my post.. general question.. general answer.. 8)

Sorry L~R, wasn't accusing you! 8)

cheers,

J

edoc,
It is easy to say that XP doesn't matter when you can't get any higher. The reality of it is - you get more and more abilities here at the site with the more XP you get. With that said, I didn't downvote you and have no idea who did.

It's like Petruchio said (according to tye's home node anyway) - "From what I can tell, people get along better when they simply show that they're willing to waste time on each other" If you really want to get a lot of XP spend way more time than you have to giving the best answer possible to a node.

Cheers and good luck - L~R

OTOH, I was a bit surprised to see the root node above downvoted so heavily. Seemed like an honest, if lost, question to me, with some good starting places as answers.

I do understand that the -- happens, and there are many differing opinions about why. I was just a little surprised in this case.

At the risk of blasphemy, another good book for getting started with Perl and cgi is the Sams "Learning Perl in 24 hours". It helped me get started.

The camel book might be hard at first, but get it as soon as you are ready. The llama is a very good introduction, but if memory serves me, does not have much about cgi.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banannas