Maybe I need more experience with Perl to formulate my question properly. I will explain what the goal of this program is and how it will be used. Perhaps that will help. As I said in the first post, I have an executable that is called First Article Report. Here at work we have a common network drive. Lets call it the 'M' drive. I would like this program to reside on the M drive so that the users can just go into the folder and execute the program. Using the program, the user would fill out the information fields and then click the 'submit' button. The submit button would then send the data to the script. I would like the data to then be stored in a sub-folder that resides within the same folder as the program. Everything would be local to this one folder on the M drive. The plan was to then be able to search this folder's data to be able to pull out the information submitted. The reports would be filed by a report number and then that would be one of the fields that could be queried. So I guess the answer to your question would be that I do not need a web server for the program. But, would I need a web server for the script to run or can it stand alone. I hope that this made it a little clearer. I will definately check into the sources that you listed in your reply. Thank you

In reply to Re: Can Perl create its own searchable db? by Bismark
in thread Can Perl create its own searchable db? by Bismark

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