Web activated Perl script

2001-07-06 Thread Domenic . Santilli
Okay I have an odd question here. I have a Perl script that runs from the command line, accepting arguments, i.e. 'perl text2html.pl --d=01/04/2001 --input=data.txt --file_name=foo.html'. I want to be able to activate it via the Web from a form that I wrote using the CGI.pm module. The user will f

passing form values to another Perl script

2001-07-17 Thread Domenic . Santilli
Hello all, Has anyone out there created a form using the CGI.pm module then taken the values submitted by the form and then used those values as command line arguments to run another script? At this point I have a Perl script that parses a text file and creates a number o fHTML files ac

Re: passing form values to another Perl script

2001-07-17 Thread Domenic . Santilli
Yeah I had thought about that but this is an internal app for a web developer and only she will be using it. Of course I am listening to all suggestions since I am trying how to figure out to proceed from here.

Re: passing form values to another Perl script

2001-07-17 Thread Domenic . Santilli
Gotcha Thanks and where do you recommend I look? "Brett W. McCoy"

RE: passing form values to another Perl script

2001-07-18 Thread Domenic . Santilli
So how exactly do I add the error checking in there? Hints anyone since I am very new to this whole process. Thanks "Brett W. McCoy"