Dear Monks, I am new to Ajax and perl (ie. CGI::Ajax) I have my sub routine running sucessfully however, I need this to be ran multipule times without realoading the entire page. I have tried using javascript as followed. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
use CGI::Ajax;

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $ajax = new CGI::Ajax('report' => \&report);


print $ajax->build_html($cgi, \&main);

sub main
{
$html<<HTML_MAIN;

<html>
<body>
    <input type="button" id="test" value="submit" onclick="setInterval
+('report([\'args__real\',\'args__monk\'],[\'report\'])', 5000)"

<div id="report"></div>

</body>
</html>
HTML_MAIN

return $html;
}

sub report
{
$input1=shift;
$input2=shift;

$result=$input1.$input2;

return $result;
}

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This is not working any ideas how to rerun my function every 5 seconds?? Please note that 
onclick="report(['args__real','args__monk'],['report'])"

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will print out the correct values. P.S. I am running this on tomcat" please ask for clarification! Thanks, realmonk

In reply to Ajax/perl/javascript in perl by realmonk

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