Dude, let's be a little more helpful.
  1. This person has had an account since 06/04/2000 on this site, but has a total of 5 posts, counting this one.
  2. Three of his previous posts were clearly indicative of someone who is not well practiced in Perl, or at least not CGI (and one doesn't *have* to learn CGI to use Perl effectively).
  3. His 4th post was asking what Perl books he should buy, which he got a reasonable list of. He clearly states that he has been put in a position of having to learn Perl/CGI for his job. That was about a month ago.
  4. He's obviously not posting as a homework troll.
  5. Lastly, look at his handle. It's unlikely that unless someone were working for UNICEF they'd pick such a handle. I imagine (and I certainly could be wrong, it's not unusual), that this person works in some capacity for UNICEF.
While the question was not very detailed in regards to the specifications of what he's trying to do, I don't think he deserves a flippant response. I think it's our job to point out where to go for other sources of information that are relevant. Telling him to yank the cords out the back of the computer is hardly a helpful solution.

Don't get me wrong, I think there are posts that deserve vitrolic responses, but I think this person was asking a real question, just very naively. Let's save the nasty responses for the homework trolls.

--Chris

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