First, consider <CODE> tags instead of <PRE>. It word wraps.

If I understand you correctly, you don't want perl to interpret what you're writing to the file. In that case, use single quotes (') instead of double-quotes ("). You may also want to use something like <<EOF to write a bunch of output.

Here's what your code may end up looking like:

#####Create Perl upload script
open(FILE, ">$basedir$q_brieftitle/upload.cgi")
     || &diedebug("$header Could not create file "
         . "$basedir$q_brieftitle/upload.cgi: $! . "
         . "It's possible that your web server will not "
         . "let me create files even if I own the directory. "
         . "If you have chmodded $basedir$q_brieftitle/ "
         . "to 777 and you are still getting this message, "
         . "then you will need to create your quizzes and "
         . "answerfiles by hand. :( $footer");
flock(FILE, 2);
&get_date;
# Note the single quotes in the next line...
print FILE <<'EOF';
#!/usr/bin/perl
$basedir  = "/home/sites/stuff/users/web/up2";
$allowall = "yes";
$theext   = ".gif";
$donepage = "http://www.yourpage.com/";
## DO NOT EDIT OR COPY BELOW THIS LINE       ##
use CGI;
$onnum = 1;
while ($onnum != 11) {
    my $req = new CGI;
    my $file = $req->param("FILE$onnum");
    if ($file ne "") {
    my $fileName = $file;
    $fileName =~ s!^.*(\\|\/)!!;
    $newmain = $fileName;
    if ($allowall ne "yes") {
        if (lc(substr($newmain,length($newmain) - 4,4)) ne $theext){
        $filenotgood = "yes";
        }
    }
    if ($filenotgood ne "yes") {
        open (OUTFILE, ">$basedir/$fileName");
        print "$basedir/$fileName";
        while (my $bytesread = read($file, my $buffer, 1024)) {
        print OUTFILE $buffer;
        }
        close (OUTFILE);
    }
    }
    $onnum++;
}
print "Content-type: text/html\n";
print "Location:$donepage\n\n";
EOF

close(FILE);

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Cheers,
Shendal

In reply to Re: CGI Question by Shendal
in thread CGI Question by koacamper

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