PERL CGI Beginners

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Flak

2004-09-04, 6:52 pm

I have a problem with a CGI script I'm using.

I keep on getting an error message.
It's (of course) my first time and I have no idea what's wrong with it.

I've got a textbox with a NAME attribute of "text".
I'm trying to use the "print" function to display the text to the cgi page.

Here's the script:

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl

$text = param('text');

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "$text";
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Here's the error message:

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Undefined subroutine &main::param called at text.pl line 3.
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Could someone tell me what this is, what is wrong, and how to fix it?

PS. PLEASE Help!!!

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