Thats exactly what I needed I needed to find a way to define a parameter on the first form so I could tell the second form how to get the info back into the first form from the database. I knew how to get the info from the first form into the bottom of the file ie

open(FILENAME, "file.cgi") or die "$!";
print FILENAME ">>$scalar_i_wanted_transferred";
close (FILENAME);

But this is unacceptable as it would appear on the webpage as it only gets appended to the bottom, I needed to specify it to be sent into a field rather than just appended to the bottom, so that the information from page two would, once submitted also be displayed in page1.

Thanx again aadvark I appreciate the help very much. I have just started using perl so any advice a huge help.

2001-03-11 Edit by Corion : Changed title to avoid conflicts with user aardvark

In reply to CGI parameter passing (was Aardvark) by Anonymous Monk

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