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Hi Mike, thanks for the help, but it does exactly the same thing, goes to the else part of the routine and prints the error part. I must be way off track somewhere, when i get back in acouple of hours i will try rewriting that section, any other suggestions gratefully received. Regards Terry...

Hi Mike, the idea is that on a web page a user inputs two values, height and width - depending on the page they are on a hidden field contains a code like "STY1-" these variables are passed to the script the height and width are assessed and rounded to the nearest size, the three are...

Hi, this is the script i use, hope this is what you need. just type the message into the completewriting bit, fill in your email address and it should work. #!/usr/bin/perl # Enter the location of sendmail. $mailprogram = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"; @required =...

Hi, thanx for the quick response, you were right about the | not being escaped, done that but i get the same result, it basically still fails the test and says that no records were returned, but the records are in the test file!! any other ideas?? ####You have the search string $search - now...

Hi, on a web page a user fills in two fields hits the button and gets a value returned. in the script the values returned are validated and joined to make the search query - this works okay :-o) the flat file has two fields per record seperated by a | the first field is the unique identifier the...