Hi, I've got a cgi script that creates a button on a webpage. When the button is pressed the form info is sent to another script. The button is created as follows:

print qq{<form action='/cgi-bin/opal/display_seview.cgi' method='post' target='new'>
<input type='hidden' name='text' value='$joined'/>
<input type='hidden' name='header' value='$query'/>
<input type='hidden' name='sequence' value='$whole_sequence'/>
<input type='submit' value='View Applet in new window'/></form>

};

The problem is with the variable $joined. When I view the source of the page I see that the end of input type tag, "/>, has been inserted before the end of the string in $joined. I've tried putting double quotes around the variables (with backslashes in front of them) but to no avail. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks!

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