The others are answering the code questions but I would offer reading suggestions.

Perl is a fun language but with any language there is a certain way of doing things. Your code shows that you are a Microsoft coder and that will get a few of the Perl elite types gnashing their teeth ;-)

If you seriously want to learn Perl I would suggest a few books

Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens. Very good coverage of Perl at a beginning level.

The O'Reilly Llama book "Learning Perl" is also a good place to start.

Writing CGI Applications with Perl by Kevin Meltzer

Finally if you want to play with Win32. Win32 Perl Programming by Dave Roth!

Good Luck

In reply to Re: Stupid newbie question - perl/cgi by Marza
in thread perl/cgi question: script works from unix command line, but not web page by geoffhanna

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