Thank you for your input. This was just an exercise of a fictional store and how a cookie could be used to keep track of what was purchased. It was just an exercise to show us how to create a cookie and put in into an array that could be used again by the cookie to display what had been clicked on. I still do not understand how the script can run in the order it is and produce a cookie to display. I guess my question should have been, does perl run script line by line or does it know to bounce among the lines to execute without giving it sub-routines. We already learned sub functions in the last chapter... Can anyone explain why the above script works the way it does with it not being in logical order? Thank you again....

In reply to Re^2: Question regarding CGI and cookies by JOT007
in thread Question regarding CGI and cookies by JOT007

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