--- Kyle Babich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for bothering everyone again, but could
> someone tell me what to change
> so that I can import variables from external files
> and get them to work in
> the current file? (see original message)
>
> Thank you,
> Kyle
Copied from "perldoc CGI":
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CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
$query = new CGI(INPUTFILE);
If you provide a file handle to the new() method,
it will read parameters from the file (or STDIN, or
whatever). The file can be in any of the forms
describing below under debugging (i.e. a series of
newline delimited TAG=VALUE pairs will work).
Conveniently, this type of file is created by the save
() method (see below). Multiple records can be saved
and restored.
-- end quote ------------------
Note that this requires use of CGI's object-oriented
interface. So instead of
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print header, start_html;
you instead say
use CGI;
my $query = new CGI(INPUTFILE);
print $query->header, $query->start_html;
or just "my $query = new CGI;" to get parameters the
normal cgi way, or a variety of other ways which you
can read about in "perldoc CGI", which I encourage you
to do.
- John
P.S. I'm about to unsubscribe to go on vacation. I
will probably be back in a few weeks.
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