Hopefully this is within your wisdom. I have a CGI script that when accessed from a web browser, loads file data into form input fields. After the user modifies the fields and presses the submit button, the new values are written back into the file. SImple. But I want more. I want the screen to refresh with the new values populated in the form input fields. My approach was to try redirecting to the same page. Instead, my code (below) seems to bring up the cached values and write those to the file the second submit. Is there a way I can get the whole script to start over, and read the values in from the newly written file? Thanks.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $new_cgi = new CGI;
my $i=0;
$| = 1; # no more buffering
my $full_url = $new_cgi->url();

        print header,
                start_html('Pattern editor'),
        h1('Pattern Edit Center'),
        start_form;

            open PATS, "pats.txt" or die "cannot open pats.txt\n";
            while (<PATS>) {
                if (/^\#.*/) {
                                chomp;
                                print hidden(-name=>"key$i", -value=>"
+$_");
                                $i++;
                                next;
                        }
                        s/#.*//;                # strip trailing comme
+nts
                next unless /\S/;       # skip blank lines
                my ($key, $val) = split /\t+/;
                $val = $key unless $val;
                        print "<TR><TD><input type=text name=key$i siz
+e=13 value=$key> </TR>\n";
                        print " <TD><input type=text name=val$i size=2
+4 value='$val'>  </TD></TR>\n";
                $i++;
                }
                close PATS;

                # use old style for now - clean up later...
                print "<TR><TD><input type=text name=key$i size=13 > <
+/TR>\n";
                print " <TD><input type=text name=val$i size=24 >  </T
+D></TR>\n";
        print submit,
        end_form,
        hr;  

 if (param()) {
    open PATS,">pats.txt" or die "Cannot open pats.txt\n";
        my      $j = 0;
    while ($j <= $i)
    {
            print PATS param("key$j"), "\t", param("val$j") . "\n"; 
                        $j++;
    }
        close PATS;
# Now that I've written the file, I should be able 
# to refresh and read the values back in.  But How?

        print redirect($full_url);

# for debugging purposes, print the form values to the bottom of page

    $j=0;
    while ($j <= $i)
    {
            print em(param("key$j")), "   ", em(param("val$j")),br; 
                        $j++;
    }
             hr;
}
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