Mucho thanks for that code snippet. Unfortunately, it produced that "internal server" error again. I'll keep tinkering with it to see what the problem might be.

I've ordered a tutorial on Perl (the so called "Llama" one) and am next going to check your website tutorial. It looks to me like Perl is one, ugly duckling of a language, complete with all the worts of C & C++. But I'm used to being abused by designers of languages, as most of us are:-)

Coupled with the fact that I'm back in a UNIX environment on my web host, it looks like it's going to be "switch" city again. But I guess that's the price we all have to pay for UNIX being so stable, while my Win95/98 crashes daily.

Too bad somebody can't invent a version of Perl (for our must have UNIX environment) that as easy to learn as Visual Basic, but keeps its apparently great string manipulation functions.

Yeah, I know, dream on. Or move to a server that supports ASP, right?

Thanks again for your help, amigo. I better get crackin' on the tutorials. All those environment variables are waiting for me out there.

In reply to Re: Re: (Ovid) Re: Beginning Perl and Forms - -w Swtich by Stinger
in thread Beginning Perl and Forms by Stinger

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