invoking external programs

2003-11-13 Thread g . lams
Hi I'm actually building a web interface to a news group server (INN). One of the feature is to allow a few users to create and delete newsgroups from the web. Basically, using CGI.pm, I retrieve the newsgroup's name, whether the user ask for a creation or a deletion of a newsgroup, and launch

problem deleting record in a text file

2003-11-12 Thread g . lams
Hi all, I'm new to perl (that's why I'm here :-). I'm building a few cgis allowing me to add, modify, delete users in a text file (perl version 5.8.0 on a redhat 8 machine). So far, I've been able to create the form and the perl scripts to add users and verify their existence. I'm now trying to