Hello everyone! I have a question regarding the following script. I am having problems getting the first elsif to redirect to another .cgi script. I have found out it is due to the printing of content type of text and html at the top of the script, but I need it to print out the table near that beginning of the script. Any help would be appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
use CGI qw(:standard -debug);
use strict;
use DBI;

#declare variables
my ($key, @sysletter, $systems, $dbh, $dsn);
my $row = param('row');
my $action = param('action');
my $value = param('value');

#assign initialization string username and password to variables
my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:IST221";
my $user_name = "ist221student";
my $password = "password";
my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user_name, $password);

#preparing and executing the statement.
if ($action eq "v") {
my $sth = $dbh ->prepare("SELECT * FROM products order by pname");
$sth->execute();
print "<HTML><FONT SIZE=15>\n";
print "<BODY><CENTER>\n";
print qq(<table width="70%" border="0" cellspacing="5" align="center">
+<tr><th>Product<th>U/I<th>Quantiy<th>Cost</tr>);
while (my @row = $sth -> fetchrow_array()) {
print qq(<tr><td>$row[1]<td align=center>$row[2] <td align=center>$row
+[3]);
printf "<td align=right>%.2f</tr><p>",$row[4];
}
}
elsif ($action eq "a") {
print "Location: http://carrotcake.nsm.tridenttech.edu/tablefunction.c
+gi\n\n";
}
elsif ($action eq "u") {
print "this is the update page under construction\n";
}
elsif ($action eq "d") {
print "this is the delete page under construction\n";
}
else {
      print "Error!\n";
}
print qq (</table>);
print "<HTML><FONT SIZE=3>\n";
print "<A HREF='http://carrotcake.nsm.tridenttech.edu/dbhome.html'>\n"
+;
print "Return to Selection Page";
print "</HTML></FONT>\n";

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