## "Alessandro Lenzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:21:22 +0200
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::> Hello Francesco,
alenzen::>
alenzen::> first of all you should read the CGI.pm manpage if you want to write good
alenzen::> CGIs.
alenzen::> You don't need to use the CGI.pm module, but it is considered good
alenzen::> programming practice and it saves a lot of time since you don't have to
alenzen::> bother with a lot of things.
alenzen::>
alenzen::> The following code should help you get the idea:
alenzen::>
alenzen::> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
alenzen::> use strict;
alenzen::> use CGI qw(:standard);
alenzen::> my $file = param("filename");
alenzen::> #now the blahblah bit is extracted and saved in $file
alenzen::>
alenzen::>
alenzen::> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
alenzen::> Von: Francesco Scaglioni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
alenzen::> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. August 2001 13:05
alenzen::> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alenzen::> Betreff: href arguments
alenzen::>
alenzen::>
alenzen::> Hi,
alenzen::>
alenzen::> THis is probably a simple question. Am new to perl and CGI so please
alenzen::> have mercy. I have a script which displays a list of files with links
alenzen::> to them. The links when hovered over in a browser show as:
alenzen::>
alenzen::> display_file.pl?filename=blahblah
alenzen::>
alenzen::> How can I extract the blahblah bit (which is the name of the selected
alenzen::> file) so that the display_file.pl script can know which file it is to
alenzen::> open and process? I think this makes sence. I want the script
alenzen::> display_file.pl to perform an action on file blahblah.
alenzen::>
alenzen::> TIA
alenzen::>
alenzen::> Francesco
alenzen::>
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alenzen::>
alenzen::>
I didn't generate a form - I am obviously mistaken as I was under the
impression that to use the param call then a form had to specify it.
Boy have I got much to learn.
Cheers
Francesco
