Hi, I have a CGI script(in perl) in /var/www/cgi-bin directory. I have a html user interface which accepts user input. I parse the input received in this CGI script & I get the input start/end dates(from the user input). 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#!/comptel/ccacp/elink/common/6.3/perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\n";
$query_string=$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
@Input = split(/&/, $query_string);

foreach $i (@Input)
    {
            ($parameter, $value) = split(/=/, $i);
             $FORM{$parameter} = $value;
             $a=$parameter.":".$FORM{$parameter}."\n";
     }

     $STARTDATE=$FORM{date1};
     $ENDDATE=$FORM{date2};

     print $STARTDATE."\n";
     print $ENDDATE."\n";

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My motive is to use these inputs to run a sql query & output the database results on web page, when the user clicks on "submit" button(on his html user interface).

But the below sql part is not working in my CGI script. 

connstr='user/password@DB';
$account='sqlplus -s $connstr <<END
set heading off
set echo off
set feedback off
set pagesize 0
select date_time_out,order_id,error_message,customer_id from <table_na
+me)> where to_char(end_date_time,"yyyymmdd")  between '0' and '888888
+88'  and error_code<>0;
END
';

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Could you please help?

In reply to CGI-SQL Query Issue by Anonymous Monk

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