Hi,
I am writing a perl script to work on web. I dont have any problem while displaying static data. I modufied my script to acces a file and display the contents. On command line the script works fine. But when I open the script using web page on Apache server I am unable to display the contents of the target file. Funny part is, except the data from file I am getting entire static data on the web page.


Please help me to solve this problem.


#!/usr/bin/perl
my $cfgfile="./dbconnect";
open (CONFIG,$cfgfile);
while (<CONFIG>) {
    chomp;                  # no newline
    s/#.*//;                # no comments
    s/^\s+//;               # no leading white
    s/\s+$//;               # no trailing white
    next unless length;     # anything left?
    my ($var, $value) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $_, 2);
    $value=~ s/\r//g;
    $ConfigValue{$var} = $value;
}

print "Name--$ConfigValue{'NAME'}";

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The above script works fine on CLI but on web I get
only "Name--" displayed.

Edit: g0n - code tags

In reply to Problem while displaying dynamic data on perl CGI pages by ramesh_ps1

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