in order to printout output directly to the browser, try including this in
your code:
....
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print $result;
....
and put this at the beginning of your script:
use CGI ':standard';
let me know if it helped;)
M
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gajo Csaba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "perl-beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: Simple Web-site question
> Hi, I'm troubled by something I guess is easy to solve.
>
> I have a web site form, with two edit boxed, the user
> should write in two numbers there and the result should be
> their sum. I wrote something like this
>
> sub sum
> {
> $result = $_[0] + $_[1];
> return $result;
> }
>
> The user types in 4 and 5. And when he presses the Submit
> button the result should be printed out. It does not print
> it out, however, but instead I get an option to open
> test.pl or save it to disk. When I save it to disk, I get a
> Web site that actually contains the "print 9" (because of
> 4+5) line, but I have to open it again from the explorer.
>
> I hope you could understand what my problem is :)
> I want it to PRINT out 9, and not to save the result to
> disk just to open it once more. How can I do this?
>
> Csaba
>
> p.s. Sorry i couldn't post the entire code, I can't
> remember it right now...
>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
