Topic awaiting preservation: variable, search and display

need some direction, searching a file, each line is seperate in a stored text file.
Using a variable in the address: db_id=1392
http://domain.com/cgi-bin/cs/cs.cgi?db_id=1392

Display select text from this file:
/home/2015/public_html/cgi-bin/data/As.data

As.data file contains:
1392|macdonald|01/15/2005|Gerry M|Private Seller|FOR SALE:|1997 Ford Mustang|Red with black interior

example url:
http://domain.com/cgi-bin/cs/cs.cgi?db_id=1392

example HTML on page:
<title>1997 Ford Mustang - Private Seller
</title>

Depends. Are we talking php here? Or perl Or just anything?

either way, it's loading the file, exploding it on newlines, looping through lines till you found the one starting with
db_id|, then explode that on '|', print appropriatly.

Directions enough?

so long,
->Tyberius Prime

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The perl way

Simply because you referenced cgi-bin

thanks for the direction..
Im still on this idea, Im trying php stuff, another code starts with

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI ':standard';
####

other code found in the template txt file is shown like:

<META name="keywords" content="%%KEYWORDS%%">

so basically
http://domain.com/cgi-bin/cs/cs.cgi
is the file for all other pages

Umm you really need to explain more in your posts.