I wanted to know if I need to save the flat file as a txt or html document. Would I then put that into a cgi-bin or not. Also, I have tried saving this as a CGI program but does not seem to work. I have also tried saving it as a PL document. Any help would be great. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

my $in;
if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET") {
    $in = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
} else {
    $in = <STDIN>;
}

$in =~ s/\+/ /g;
$in =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
my %movie = split (/=/, $in);

open (DATA, "/home/export/users/cis14/cheu0576631/public_html/cgi-bin/
+MovieList.txt");
my @data = <DATA>;
close (DATA);

print <<END;
Content-Type: text/html\n\n

<html>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff">
<center><h2>Results</h2></center><p>
<center><hr size=1 width=50%></center>
END

for ($i = 0; $i <= $#data; $i++) {
    if ($data[$i] =~ /-- $movie{'title'} --/i) {
        print <<END;
<center><b><font size="+1">$data[$i + 1]</font></b></center><br>
$data[$i + 2]<br>
END
        last;
    } elsif ($i == $#data) {
        print "<b><i>Sorry! I haven't reviewed that one yet!</i></b>";
    }
}

print <<END;
<center><hr size=1 width=50%></center>
</body>
</html>
END

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