It seems like you are going thru alot of trouble just so you can use CGI. If you don't want to do this over a network, why
use CGI. Tk could do this quite easily. There are quite a few modules available, like Tk::TableMatrix. It's xs code and is pretty fast.
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
flash japh
Because this is a personal project for which I have zero time. I don't want to spend a most of it fooling with the user interface when I know HTML nearly inside and out. Also, the web browser is rapidly becoming the standard UI for the majority of people. Don't fight the Man, man! :-)
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Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose