I have been working on this script just to see if i can write one that has a purpose. I can't figure out why its not working, so please help. Thats all thanks in advance <code> #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI qw(param :standard); my $in = param("name"); if ($in =~ /^Yy/ ) { yes(); } else{ not(); } sub not{ my $whynot; print "Why not?\n"; $whynot = <STDIN>; chomp($whynot); open (DATABASE, ">>whynot.txt") || nice ("Cant open the textfiles, $!"); print DATABASE $whynot; close(DATABASE) || nice ("Can't close the text files, $!"); } sub yes{ print "thanks\n"; } sub nice{ my $error = "@_"; print "Content-type:text/html\n\n"; print "<HTML>\n"; print "<HEAD>\n"; print "<title>Damian -> Error!</title>\n"; print "</head>\n"; print "<body>\n"; print "\n"; print "
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