Hi Folks, I have been in and out of perl for a while and I'm a novice, so please bare with me. I searched for a solution, but still came up empty and hope you find folks can help me out.

I have a form that writes to a tab delimited file...works great. However, I want to print those results to an HTML page -- so you can just view the FF as an HTML page/URL. Here is what I have come up with that writes to a FILE called results.html but results.html is blank in the browser. Can you help me find what I'm missing?

Also note the brute force nature, sorry for that, but as I said I'm a novice that just dabs in perl from time to time. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

open(OUTFILE, ">results.html");

print OUTFILE "<html><head>";
print OUTFILE "<title>Summit Results</title>";
print OUTFILE "</head>";
print OUTFILE "<body>";
print OUTFILE "<table border='1'>";
    
print OUTFILE "<tr>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Company</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Address</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Name</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Email</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Phone</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>fjskdfjskla</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>fjsdklfja</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>fhjsdhfj</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>Pfjdskl</td>";

#... there's 25 fileds

print OUTFILE "</tr>";


open (FF,"mylogfile.log") or die("There was a problem opening the file
+.");
while ($entry=<FF>) {
@fields=split(/    /,$entry);

print OUTFILE "<tr>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[0]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[1]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[2]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[3]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[4]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[5]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[6]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[7]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[8]</td>";
print OUTFILE "<td>$fields[9]</td>";

#... there's 25 fileds

print OUTFILE "</tr>";
}
close DB;

print OUTFILE "</table>";
print OUTFILE "</body>";
print OUTFILE "</html>"; 

close OUTFILE;

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Also, I think I can just do print to >>WHATEVER instead of all of the OUTFILE calls right?

Thanks all!

LakeTrout

In reply to Print Flat File to HTML by lakeTrout

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