lauragarcia wrote:

I'm running this program off the browser and it seems I need to be running directly from the command line.

I'm not sure I follow you. Is this supposed to be a CGI script? Is this a program someone else wrote and you are using?

If it's a relatively short program, perhaps you can post it here? Or perhaps you know enough to identify the relevant section of code and you can post that here? If so, be sure to wrap it in <CODE></CODE> tags so that the formatting is preserved.

The reason I can't answer your question directly is due to lack of information. If it's a CGI script, I need to give you information about using CGI.pm to get the data. If it's a command line program, is it expecting command line arguments or does it want to read the data from STDIN? Seeing the appropriate code sections can give us better insight as to your needs.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid - CGI or command line?) Re(3): Prompting user input (newbie) by Ovid
in thread Prompting user input (newbie) by lauragarcia

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