Hello Monks, I have a simple html form.(Month Day Year Title and Message) input fields are used. 
<form method="POST" action="http://www.dom.com/cgi-local/events.cgi">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="preview">
 <input type="submit" value="Preview" name="B1">
<input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2">
</form>

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When the form is submited the cgi script displays the variable information and formatting correctly. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use CGI qw(:standard);

my $q = new CGI;

my $action       = $q->param('action');

#############################
#initialize form variables
#############################
#my $uniq_number = &uniqueid;

my $month = param('month');
my $date = param('date');
my $year = param('year');
my $title = param('title');
my $message = param('message');

my $placement = param('placement'); 
#PLACES NEW EVENT BEFORE OR AFTER EXISTING EVENTS


################################
#   variables for storage
###############################
my $data = join '::', $month,$date,$year,$title,$message;

my $addfile = "events.txt";
my $line = "";


######################################
#BEGIN COUNTCURRENTRECORDS SUBROUTINE
######################################

open(FILE, "$addfile");
 my @lines = <FILE>;
close(FILE);
my $num = @lines;
######################################

if($action =~ /add_event/i){
  &store_event;
}
##############################
# Print New Event for approval
##############################


 # Add the event passed variables from the add event page

print header(),
        start_html(-title=>'CGI Example Script'),
                                 h2('New Parish Event!'),
                "<HR>
  <table border='0' width='100%'>
         <tr>
            <td width='100%'>
   <table border='1' width='100%'>
         <tr>
             <td width='100%'>
   <table border='1' width='100%'>
         <tr>
             <td width='22%'>
<font SIZE='+1'color='gray'><B>$month $date, $year</B>
            </font></td>
                        <td width='78%'>
<font SIZE='+1'color='black'>
                    <B>$title</B></font></td>
                     </tr>
                        </table>
                                                         </td>
                </tr>
                                                                  <tr>
                    <td width='800%'><font SIZE='2'>$message</font>
                                </td>
                                                                 </tr>
                                                     </table>
                     </td>
                                </tr>
                        </table> <BR>
                                <form action method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='action' value='add_event'>
<input type='submit' value=' Publish new event '>
<BR>
<INPUT type='button' value='Continue'onClick='history.go(-1)'>
</form>",

end_html();



#####################################
#could be sub for saving data
####################################
#####################################
# Open the file for appending
###################################
sub store_event{
if ($placement eq "beg") {
open (FH, "<events.txt") || die "could not open file: $!";
my @ODB = <FH>; close (FH);
my $newline = "$data";
open (NFH, ">events.txt") || die "could not open file 2: $!";
print NFH "$newline" . "\n";
foreach $line (@ODB) { print NFH "$line";
}
close (NFH);
}
else
{
open (OUT, ">>$addfile") or die "Can't open $addfile\n";
print OUT "$data\n";
close OUT;
}
}
exit (0);

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At this point I wanted to be able to write the variables to a file or go back and continue editing. But I am still new to perl and I am having a lot of trouble. Thanks for any help Cal

In reply to saving data problem by cal

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