I have some code here, what I want it to do is take data from 2 text boxes and then copy that data into a text file...when I do this the only output I get in the text boxes are a rectangle, a comma and another rectangle...

Thanks for the help!

Gono

sub save_information {

  read(STDIN, my $buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
  $buffer =~ tr/+/ /;
  $buffer =~ s/\r/ /g;
  $buffer =~ s/\n/ /g;
  my %formdata;
  my @pairs = split(/&/,$buffer);
  foreach my $pair(@pairs){
    my ($key,$value) = split(/=/,$pair);
    $formdata{$key} .= "$value";
  }

  my $text1 = $formdata{param('text1')};
  my $text2 = $formdata{param('text2')};

  open(INFO, ">>testing123.txt"); # Open for appending
  print INFO "$text1 , $text2\n";
  close (INFO);

print <<END;
<HTML>
<BODY>
<P><H1><B>Thank you for saving your file...</B></H1><P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
END

}

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20040318 Edit by Corion: Fixed formatting, added code tags

20040318 Edit by Corion: Changed title from 'Question'

In reply to CGI Question: Getting and saving form parameters by Anonymous Monk

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