Hey, I'm a Perl newbie heh and I was just wondering if any of the people here could give me any feed back, this is a chat program I made, (well the actual program part) it is put into a frame with a page that it appends to that is located outside of my cgi-bin so that perl scripts are'nt executed, any ways here it is lol. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI;

use CGI ':standard';
print header;
print start_html('Chat'),
h1('Chat'),
    start_form,
    "Name ",textfield('name'),
    p,
    "Say ",textfield('say'),
    p, 
    submit,
    end_form,
    hr;

if (param()) {
    
$say=(param('say')); 
$name=(param('name'));
       
     
    $say =~  s/</&lt;/g; #Stops user from entering the < in both name 
+and speech
    $name =~ s/</&lt;/g; #Leaves the > allowed, you can't enter HTML w
+ithout <
        
        $say =~ s/!{5}/!/g;  #Although this won't take care of all mul
+tiple ! it can reduce 
                 #the number to help avoid multiple lines of just !'s 
        
     open CHAT, ">>../chatty2.html";
        print CHAT "<h5><i>",$name,": </i><b>",$say,"</b></h5>\n";
        close CHAT

    }
      
 print end_html;

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I'm proably doing a bunch of stuff wrong heh, any feed back you can provide would be helpful, thanks :)

In reply to Seeking Feedback on Chat Program (was Seeking Feed back) by Cobo

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