Hi, I am writing a form that will allow the user to find a record by first and last name and display the record in an HTML page. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard); my @namedata; whie (<namedata>){ @namedata = split (/\|/,$_); if ($namedata[0] =~name_word){ print"<b> Firstname:$namedata[1]",br()"lastname:$namedata[0]; br(),"City:$namedata[2]</b>,br();}} Given that the file namedata below: Atara|Frieda|Courtland|AZ|216|794-3876Zissily|Jeb|Elfrieda|AZ|711|574-5587Brown|Rubin|Lochiel|AZ|703|511-3745Jarvis|Sue|Gleason|AZ|520|356-1210Jones|Omar|Harshawk|AZ|602|294-7034Mason|Jimbo|Gleason|AZ|520|378-4458Mason|Alice|Elfrieda|AZ|711|654-4458Winnet|Alex|Fairbank|AZ|908|632-3151Smith|Samuel|Sunnyside|AZ|314|457-7989Smith|David|Sierra Vista|AZ|520|487-7989StRegis|Les|Courtland|AZ|216|723-6122Stark|Bonnie|Lochiel|AZ|703|535-5203what am I doing wrong?
Secondly, using the same file namedata above, I would like to list the namedata file in alphabetical order in a web page. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI qw(:standard); my @name; while (<namedata>){ @name = split (/\|/, $_); if (name[0]=~ $search_word){sort [1](A-Z)}; print "lastname:$name[1]" br(), "firstname:$name[0]"} thanks, Brady --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!