Aloha Monks,

I am extremly new to perl. My second script. I have written a script to collect four pieces of data and write it to a file. I have then been able to open the file and read the data as an array.

What I would like to know is there a more fexible way in calling the data, so it can be manipulated in layout. I was thinking $variable($count) with a for loop with the size of the array/4 or am I way off base?

I have used strict, and still don't realize what it does, but many people think it is important habit to get into so I'm trying.

Also newline \n doesn't work! Mac OS X Apache BBEdit Adobe GoLive.

Mahalo JW Guillaume

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";

#####################################

my $employee=param('employee_name');
my $i="";
my $t="";
my @data="";
my $items;
my $lines;


#####################################
#    Read File            #
#####################################

print "Employee's name is: $employee<p\/>";

open(JOE, "<Files/$employee.txt");

@data = <JOE>;

close (JOE);

#####################################
#        Print File          #
#####################################

$lines=scalar@data/4;

for ($t=1; $t<=$lines; $t++) {

for ($i=1; $i<=4; $i++) {

    $items=shift(@data);
    
    print $items;
}

print "there is a line break here<p\/>";

}

#####################################
print "<p\/>To go Back <A HREF=\"http://127.0.0.1/\">Click here</A>";
#####################################
exit;

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