Re: Help on String manipulation

You made a number of mistakes in your HTML. For instance, you say the type is text/html, yet you don't have an html tag at all. You also don't say what size the border is supposed to be. And you don't define a background color (some browsers default to grey, which isn't pretty). Maybe you want something more like:

print <<OUT;
Content-Type: text/html


<html>
<head>
  <title> DEEEalers </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<h1> Dealers Listing</h1>
<table border="1">
<tr><th>surname</th><th>given</th><th>suburb</th><th>postcode</th></tr
+>
OUT

open (NAMES, "/var/www/cgi-bin/data/dealers.txt");
while (<NAMES>) {
    next if !m/^B/; chomp;
    print "<tr><td>", join ("</td><td>", (split /[,\s]+/, $_)[0..3]), 
+"</td></tr>\n";
}
close (NAMES);

print <<OUT;
</table>

</body>
</html>
OUT
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I suggest figuring out what all of this does and rewriting it in your own format, rather than copying it verbatim. Your teacher might check here, who knows.

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