I have a form that deletes and adds to a reservation calendar. The add works fine. After each addition an updated list of appointments is displayed. However, on deletion the page goes blank. And you have to close and reopen to get the results. Fortunately delete is working, just no refresh: 

$cur = CGI->new();
$mode = "default";
if($cur->param("mode")) {
    $mode = $cur->param("mode");
}

$content .= print_form();

if (($cur->param("delete")) { $content .= delete_appointment(); }

if($cur->param("laptop")){ $content .= update_day(); }

$content .= display_appointments();

open (TEMPLATE, "../template.shtml")||dienice("Content-type: text/html
+\n\nCould not find template");
while (<TEMPLATE>){
    $page .= $_;
}
$page =~ s/<!-- ?content ?-->/$content/ig;
close (TEMPLATE);
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n$page";

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You would think it would display the contents after a deletion since it displays after an addition. print_form() returns the form to be filled out, delete_appointments handles removal from the db and does not return anyting, updatE_day adds to database and returns error if any, and display returns the list of reservations.

I think my error is that the script stops executing after a delete since it thinks its done and doesn't run back through. How would I go about refreshing it then so the appointments/reservations display with each deletion?

In reply to No update after delete by intranetman

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