Sorry for the vagueness On the web server is a CSV Excel file, which is basically a spreadsheet that is readable as a text file. It seperates columns using a comma, and rows by going to the next line. The first element in each line is a unique part number. Information that follows it (seperated by commas) would be things like price, location, etc. The user on the website would type in a part number and the page would return the price, location, etc. information. This may seem like a very simple problem, but I have never used Perl in a practical application yet, so I'd like to use it here. Thanks, Doug

In reply to Re: Re: Using Perl to Implement a simple Searchable Web Database by Anonymous Monk
in thread Using Perl to Implement a simple Searchable Web Database by Anonymous Monk

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