in reply to storing or retrieveing

First things first. Perl is the "script" and CGI is the method. CGI is often equated with/as Perl, but in reality, CGI is a module that Perl uses to parse form input, but not to necessarily write data to a file. Anyway...

Why don't you show us what you have already, and then we can be more efficient in our help.


—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G. K. Chesterton