I have a script that calls on itself depending on certain parameters. The 1st instance of the script displays several input fields.. when submit is clicked, the same script is run again and output is displayed. The problem i'm having is that when i click refresh to bring up the first input
part of the script, it just keeps displaying the output part.
I'm using a local web server on a win98 machine. I have to restart the web server and close/open the browser to get the first part/input part of the script to display again.
Any Idea's? Here's the script. Thanx, Lisa.

$InputFile = "input.txt";
$TextFile = "story2.htm";
$CGIURL = "weblibs.pl";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs){
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
    $name =~ tr/+/ /;
    $name =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
    if ($FORM{$name}) {
        $FORM{$name} = "$FORM{$name}, $value";
    }
    else {
        $FORM{$name} = $value;
        push (@variables,$name);
    }
}

if ($FORM{'TextFile'}) { &SendFile; }

if (-d $TextFile) {
    opendir(FILES,$TextFile);
    @tempfiles = readdir(FILES);
    closedir(FILES);
    foreach $file (@tempfiles) {
        if (-T "$TextFile/$file") {
            push (@files, $file);
        }
    }
    srand();
    $files = @files;
    $file = @files[int(rand($files))];
    $TextFile = $TextFile."/".$file;
}

open (FILE,"$TextFile");
@LINES = <FILE>;
close (FILE);
$text = join(' ',@LINES);
$text =~ s/\n/ /g;
$text =~ s/</\n</g;
$text =~ s/>/>\n/g;
@text = split('\n',$text);

undef (@variables);

foreach $line (@text) {
    if ($line =~ s/<!--(.*)-->/$1/) {
        push (@variables,$line);
    }
}

@sortedvariables = sort (@variables);

open (FILE,"$InputFile");
@LINES = <FILE>;
close (FILE);

foreach $line (@LINES) {
    if ($line =~ /<!--InputWords-->/i) {
        print "<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=\"$CGIURL\">\n";
        print "<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=TextFile ";
        print "VALUE=\"$TextFile\">\n";
        print "<P><CENTER><TABLE>\n";
        foreach $variable (@sortedvariables) {
            next if ($variable eq $lastvariable);
            print "<TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT><P>$variable: </TD>";
            print "<TD><INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=\"$variable\" SIZE=25>";
            print "</TD></TR>\n";
            $lastvariable = $variable;
        }
        print "</TABLE></P>\n";
        print "<P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE=\"See the Results!\">\n";
        print "</CENTER></P></FORM>\n";
    }
    else {
        print $line;
    }
}

exit;

sub SendFile {
    open (FILE,"$FORM{'TextFile'}");
    @LINES = <FILE>;
    close (FILE);
    $text = join(' ',@LINES);
    $text =~ s/\n/ /g;
    foreach $variable (@variables) {
        if ($FORM{$variable} eq "") {
            print "incomplete!\n";
            exit;
        }
        $text =~ s/<!--$variable-->/<STRONG>$FORM{$variable}<\/STRONG>
+/g;
    }
    $text =~ s/A\/an <STRONG>(a|e|i|o|u)/An <STRONG>$1/g;
    $text =~ s/a\/an <STRONG>(a|e|i|o|u)/an <STRONG>$1/g;
    $text =~ s/A\/an/A/g;
    $text =~ s/a\/an/a/g;
    print $text;
    exit;
}
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