How do you use a perl script to empty a text file and then replace it with data from a web form? Here I first get the data from the file, then I use the web form to update it. The delete old data part works, but the new data doesn't get added to the file. $FORM{'content2'} doesn't get registered when editing it. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
###################

use CGI ':standard';
use CGI qw(:standard);  # then only CGI.pm defines a head()

$page = param('page');
#/cgi-bin/edit.cgi?page=edit

print header();
if ($page eq 'edit') {

#This part creates a form with the content from the edit.shtml file.
use LWP::Simple;
$content = get ('http://www.domain.com/edit.shtml');
print <<EOM;
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-rev
+alidate">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
<HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/edit.cgi" name
+="myForm">
<textarea title="Content (optional)" name="content2" cols="100" rows="
+50">$content</textarea>
<BR><input type="submit" value="SUBMIT"/></form>
EOM
}
else {

$database = "/home/site139/public_html/edit.shtml";

# Get the input
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

# Split the name-value pairs
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs) {
   ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

   $value =~ tr/+/ /;
   $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
   $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

{
#Here I delete the edit.shtml page.
open my $empty_the_file, "> /home/site139/public_html/edit.shtml" or d
+ie "Can not write file:
edit.shtml $!" ;
close $empty_the_file;

#Here I try to put in the data from the form but $FORM{'content2'} doe
+sn't get registered.

    open (DATABASE,">>$database");
    print DATABASE "$FORM{'content2'}\n";
    close(DATABASE);
}
print <<EOM;
<HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
Page edited.
<P>
$FORM{'content2'}
EOM
   exit;
}

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