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Guest_imported · Jul 30, 2002

Please advise why this wont print the variable $webpage1 with the value of "first"??
It doesnt print the value on my page or in the text file.
The text file doesnt have any data in it. why doesnt this work??
[tt]

use CGI qw

all);
print header;

$webpage1 = param("first&quot

;

print "
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Pages for local data.</title>
</head>
<body>
";

$filepath = "C:/inetpub/

http://wwwroot/fil.txt";

$newtext = "$webpage1\n";

open (FILE, ">>$filepath&quot

|| "Did not write:$!\n";
print FILE $newtext;
close (FILE);

print "Data submitted. 
$newtext";
print "</body></html>";
[/tt]

badco · Aug 1, 2002

You dont need the param function. Try this:
[tt]
$webpage1 = "first";[/tt] =================
Bad Company Music
=================

danielhozac · Aug 1, 2002

You do need the param function if you want to access data that was sent to the script.
How are you invoking the script? Maybe there isn't a first parameter at all. Try invoking it like this:
scriptname?first=test
and see if that prints "test\n" to your text file. //Daniel

Guest_imported · Aug 1, 2002

Thanks it now works. It didnt need the param part as badco said.

danielhozac · Aug 1, 2002

Of course it works, but it will always print "first\n" to the file. Is this really what you wanted? //Daniel

Guest_imported · Aug 1, 2002

Yes it does exactly what i needed, thanks for your all your replies.

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