Greetings, I have a minor problem I am hoping someone can help me with. I have writting a form and a perl script with that form. A user is to select an Item on the form and the perl script prints a page back to the user that tells them how many times each item on the list was voted for. A link is included to go back to the vote page. If a second user votes, the values of what was voted for need to be saved. My problem is saving the values. Each time I click the link to go back to the page for second user to vote, the pervious values of what was voted for are whipped out. How can I save these values and increment them each time something is voted for? I though about sendind the values to an external file then reading them back in and incrementing them but I'm not sure exactly how to do this. Someone please help....

In reply to Counting how many times things get voted for? by Anonymous Monk

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