Hello again monks, I want to thanks for the advice on my other (less well written thread). My problem still remains and I am asking for some type of easy solution. I will post some test code along with my post.These perl function needs to be called again automatically once the submit button is clicked (onclick JavaScript). Can anyone give me a sample code to recall this function after a specific amount of time has passed. Then once the stop button is hit stop it from running. In my real code the function is calling using a database to get updated results. Code is error free. 
#!/usr/bin/perl    

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

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

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

sub main
{
my $html = <<HTML;

<html>
<body>
<input type="button" id="test" value="submit" onclick="report(['args__
+real','args__monk'],['report'])">
<input type="button" id="stop" value="stop">

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

</body>
</html>
HTML

return $html;
}

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

my $result=$input1.$input2;
return $result;
}

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I know this might not be the proper way to do this however, I need a solution sometime this week. Any examples would be very useful. Thanks,

In reply to CGI/AJax Question by realmonk

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