yes i've looked around but i still don't understand much, i wrote this up and I don't understand why it doesn't work. No matter what $func is, it only runs the first if-statement. Maybe give me an example of how to do this without if/thens or point out my dumb mistake :)

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
$func = $query->param("func");
$file = $query->param("file");
@text = $query->param("text");
print $query->header ( );

if ($func == "vi")
{
    if (-1 != index($file, '.'))
    {
        open (FILE, ">/home/3dwccom/www/$file") ||
        die "file must have .extension";
        print FILE @text;
        close (FILE);
        print "File created successfully!";
    }
    else
    {
        die "name must have a . in it.";
    }
}
elsif ($func == "edit")
{
    open (PAGE, ">../$file") ||
    die print "couldn't open file";
    print PAGE @text;
    close (PAGE);
    print "File successfully edited";
}
elsif ($func == "rm")
{
    `rm /home/3dwccom/www/$file` ||
    die "couldn't remove file";
    print "Success";
}
else {
print "there was an error";
}

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Multiple forms submit to this so I'd like to keep only the listed variable, not different ones for each part.

In reply to How can I run only a determined part of script not using if/then statements by einerwitzen

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