Preserved Topic: ActiveState Perl (Page 1 of 1)

I have an html form with two form fields. I want to write the results to a .txt file (using an ActiveState Perl script) in a way that doesn't overwrite existing data but rather appends to existing data. Can anyone point me to a tutorial on doing so?

To open a file so that you can append new data to the end, put a less than symbol (' > ') infront of the file name to be opened

open (FILE, ">$file") or die "Cannot open $file: $!\n"; # Opens $file for appending new data at the end

After that, everything else is the same for using filehandles

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Actually, if you use "> $filename" you will overwrite the existing file.

To append to the file use open(FILE, ">> $filename");. Then write to FILE using print FILE "String\n";

if I have a select field and a text field in an html form, on submit what would I use in the PL script to write to the text file...

I tried one method and it printed the field names not the selected data or the data entered into the text field

Boudga, it would be good if you could show us your perl script so that we can analyze it...

Ha! Hahahaha good that you pointed that out hyperbola, I should stop waiting till ass at night to check the asylum for anything interesting. Okay, I promise I'll start taking my pills.

Anyways, Boudga what did you try that ended up giving you field names? I would think that just using field names like they were variables (i.e. textfield 'comment' would be reffered to as $comment) but thats totally a guess.

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