Well, despite all your suggestions, I still have failed to get the perl/CGI @dataset array populated as on the command line. Both the main and uptime.pl scripts have 755 set for their permissions. The question regaring the role of split in the code does not appear to be the problem either. For example, with: 
@test = `uptime.pl`;
foreach (@test) {
  print "$_<BR>";
}

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dataset values are still set to 0(ie MULTIBEAM 0). If anyone has the perl gdchart module (http://gdchart.freeservers.com/gdchart/) installed on their system, I'd be happy to send my scripts and see if they work for you. Regards, Stacy.

In reply to Re: backticks in CGI by Anonymous Monk
in thread trouble populating array with input from a file by maderman

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