The code adds the delimiter to the file between all parameters but to remove and display it on the browser is another story cant do it making a silly mistake somewhere 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

my $query= new CGI;
my $filename= "testfile.txt";
my $value;
my $fname;
my $lname;
my $textarea;
      $'="|";
sub Writing_to_file
    {

            my @input_to_file=@_; 
            open (DAT, ">>$filename") || die ("no file exists");
            print DAT join($', @input_to_file), "\n";
            close(DAT);
    }

sub display_on_browser
        {
            open (DAT, $filename) || die ("no file exists");
            my @data_in_the_file=<DAT>;
            close(DAT);
            my $data_to_read;
            print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
            print"<html><head><title>Guestbook</title></head><body>";
            foreach $data_to_read(@data_in_the_file)
            {
                my @delimiter_to_remove=$data_to_read;
                @delimiter_to_remove=~s/\$'/\n/g;
                print "<table border=1><tr><td>@delimiter_to_remove\n<
+br></td></tr></table>";
            }
                print "<a href=http://guestbook.ds5403.dedicated.turbo
+dns.co.uk/index.html><h1>Back to guestbook</a>";
                print "</body></html>";
        }
$fname=$query->param('name');
$lname=$query->param('name1');
$textarea=$query->param('comments');
Writing_to_file($fname,$lname,$textarea);
display_on_browser();

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Please advise thanks jinnks

In reply to special variable? by jinnks

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