PERL CGI Beginners - html form output

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html form output

Alex Maceda

2004-05-22, 11:31 am

I have a from processing script that I am trying to modify to spit out another html form, minus text boxes. My question is can I somehow use the name portion of the POST request as a variable to have the value portion print in it's proper location? ie.
I get a colon separated list with name value pairs.

<output>

name: john
date: 3-30-04
....
....

</output>

Can I use the 'name' 'date' part as a variable somehow, or is there a better way that I don't know of. Thanks for any help in advance.

-Alex Maceda

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Wiggins D'Anconia

2004-05-22, 11:31 am

Alex Maceda wrote:
> I have a from processing script that I am trying to modify to spit out another html form, minus text boxes. My question is can I somehow use the name portion of the POST request as a variable to have the value portion print in it's proper location? ie
. I get a colon separated list with name value pairs.
>
> <output>
>
> name: john
> date: 3-30-04
> ...
> ...
>
> </output>
>
> Can I use the 'name' 'date' part as a variable somehow, or is there a better way that I don't know of. Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> -Alex Maceda

I have re-read your post again and think I understand what you are after
this time, I was so

before. I think, you are talking about
using some sort of templating system. There are loads of them
available, a popular one is Template::Toolkit.

Essentially you are looking to interpolate the values provided in a
form, into some other sort of document?

Currently I use a homegrown system but others can suggest their
favorites, you might also want to check the archives, this is a pretty
frequent discussion.

If this isn't what you meant, try to rephrase your question....

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