It seems to me that he is saying that there is no HTML involved in this process, but that he is basically spoofing a forms submission so that he can call a create record script that was created for a previous web-based database application.

Doing it this way is only going to complicate things for you. Would it be cool? It might be a nice hack, but what happens when your load increases on this type of parsing. Are you going to abuse all your text this way and force it through a non-essential forms submission, or you could bite the bullet once and just write a passthrough script to submit directly to the database. Plus you have to double parse so that you can get the data and then format it into your encoded submission.

You have the right idea about reusable code, but make sure it applies to what you are doing. I would probably just parse the data according to the requirements and then use DBI for my database operations.

In reply to Re: Run one perl script from another? by Grundle
in thread Run one perl script from another? by punch_card_don

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