So if I am understanding your answer, this method would create a text file that would be appended everytime the form is submitted. Then if say the first time it is submitted I have report #100, then it is submitted again so now I have report #101. These would be in a delimited text file. Now I want to search the reports so that I can see report number 101. So I would want to load just that one section of the text doc. Or can I create a seperate text doc each time the form is submitted and then just load that one file back into the program. It seems to me that I could maybe set the text filename as a variable and then fill it with the report number which the program generates each time a new report is filed. The purpose of this form is to replace a paper version that we now use when ever we perform a first article inspection on a new product. That is the reason for the large size of the form.

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

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