Hello,

I am trying to expand a scalar variable in my cgi script and can not seem to get it to work correctly. Any help would be appreciated. I have written a simple script below to demonstrate my problem: 

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use HTML::Template;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);

$|=1; 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";  
print '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">'."\n"; 
print "<html>\n"; 
    print "<head>\n"; 
    print "<title>TESTING</title>\n"; 
    print "</head>\n"; 
    print "<body>\n"; 
        $download = "download"; 
    $link = "http://129.107.52.101/cgi_data/result2007623204259.pdf"; 
 
print '<input type="button" value="Download PDF Report" onClick=$link,
+ $download); return false;">';
    print "</body>\n"; 
    print "</html>\n";

[download]

When I clicked on the download button to download the pdf file, it did not pop up a download window as I expected it to. I used the browser view source option and found out that $link and $download did not get expanded. Any thought on this?

Code tags added by GrandFather

In reply to Expanding Scalar Variable by Anonymous Monk

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