Re: Re: Re: Conditional is stopping script

Some comments:

There is an excellent perl module CGI that does all the hard work in parsing requests like yours and creating webpages. It's included in a typical perl distribution. For a tutorial check out this excellent piece of literature: Ovid's CGI Tutorial
Using hashes consequently. In your code you mix statements like this:
```
$morneaten = $formdata{'$eaten'};
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```
with:
```
          
$nooneaten = $formdata{'eaten'};
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```
The difference is that in the first line you are looking up the hash value for the literal value $eaten (including the dollar sign, because everything inside single quotes is taken literally), while in the second line you are looking up the value for eaten (without the dollar sign).
When you would be using the CGI-module, most probably your code would look like:
```
 use CGI;
 my $query = CGI->new();
 ....
 $nooneaten = $query->param('eaten');
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```
webserver logs:
```
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Apr/2004:23:24:42 -0400] "GET /cgi-bin/homeblood.pl?
+datedata=04%2F01%2F04&eaten=no&timedata=8%3A30&shift=am&readdata=110 
HTTP/1.1" 200 0 125 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-U
+S; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007"
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```
This means that your webserver has received a request to the script homeblood.pl (GET /cgi-bin/homeblood.pl), the part after the ? are your parameters, separated by &-signs (for instance 'eaten=no'). If your webserver has an error log that would be a good place to look for errors. Another way to check your script is to run in from a cmd-prompt, and see what output (and possibly errors) it will give you.

hope this helps

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