I am writing a lost and found program that runs on a website and calls a PERL program to process the information into a data base. My problem is that when I click submit the PERL program doesn't run. Before I reloaded my computer it use to run, but I had the wrong code so it didn't do what I wanted. Now I think I have the right code but it won't run. If I double click the .pl file it runs and creates a .txt file with new lines in it. So I know PERL runs on my computer. As I said I think I am asking in the wrong forums but I don't know who or what to ask to get the help I need.

Here is the HTML form tag

 <form id="found" name="found" action="lost.pl" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">

Here is what I have so far for my PERL program code. I am not asking for help on the code for my program, as I am using this project to better learn PERL. I just need to know why it isn't running

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Get Form Variables

sub parse_form {

   read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
   if (length($buffer) < 5) {
         $buffer = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
    }
 
  @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
   foreach $pair (@pairs) {
      ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

      $value =~ tr/+/ /;
      $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

      $FORM{$name} = $value;
   }
} #end parse_form


&parse_form;

open (LOST, ">>lost.txt")or die "Cannot open lost.txt";

foreach $key (keys %FORM){

   print LOST "$key $FORM{$key}+";
}

  print LOST "\n";

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In reply to I think this is the wrong forums but I am not sure where to ask by pccenterllc

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