Gilimanjaro's point about using CGI is doubly made by the typo in your header. There should be a space after the colon and, as a result, you have no guarantee that the Web browser will parse things correctly. Further, if you're not using HTML, you may as well specify a plain text content type:

use CGI qw(:standard);
print header('text/plain');

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See my .sig for the location of my CGI course. You might find it useful.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to Re: Newbie cgi question by Ovid
in thread Newbie cgi question by sidhartha

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