[ILUG] Passing parameters from Perl to HTML

[John McCormac]

Robert Elliott wrote:
> Take pity on a clueless amateur Perl programmer, someone. Please. What
> I'm trying to do is write a perl script that'll perform some
> calculations and pass these to a web page as a variable. I can write
> them to the page without a problem, but they're not manipulable. I
> suspect environment variable are the way to go, but clueful advice 

A web page is static. Unless you post process the web page, the passed 
data would just be part of the page. Perhaps you should be passing the
data from the Perl script to a form rather than a page. In this case the
out path would be:

Perl -> Page With Form -> Form Processing

Regards...jmcc
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