Shell Programming and Scripting

I was being arbitrary with my names, just picking four from books on my desk.

Totally wrong about PHP better suited to handle form data than perl, but probably by this time you can tell this is school work. So I doubt the instructor would want the students in a perl course to use PHP.

Yea, this is 100% school work, after 3 days though, I have given up on getting this to click in my head and am moving on to the next set of assignments.

Still though if anyone has an y good sites out there, I am in need of them as a good reference. I don't want people doing the work for me, but at this point my "Search-Fu" has let me down as I can't find a whole lot that is geared towards the beginner.

I know nobody reads forum rules before posting, but it is against the rules of this forum to post school work.

There is tons of resources online geared towards beginners, the problem you are having is that your fundamentals are poor and you are trying to write a CGI script without first understanding some basics. Writing a CGI script generally comes after several chapters of more basic instuction:

simple scalars
string operators
numeric operators
lists (arrays and hashes)
loops
file I/O
subroutines and perl functions
modules and packages

and somewhere after all that:

CGI

Right now the biggest problem I can see is here:

Code:

foreach my $key ("Computer Maintenance", "Microsoft Office", "Unix Essentials", "CGI/PErl") {
	print "<TR><TD>$key</TD> <TD>$semm_count{$key}</TD></TR>\n";
	}

In the hash %semm_count there are no keys ("Computer Maintenance", "Microsoft Office", "Unix Essentials", "CGI/PErl"). You need to change the numbers in the file (1,2,3,4) to the names of the courses you listed.

Code:

StudentA,Computer Maintenance
StudentB,Microsoft Office
StudentC,Unix Essentials
StudentD,CGI/PErl
StudentE,Computer Maintenance
StudentF,Microsoft Office
StudentG,Microsoft Office
StudentH,CGI/PErl

Edit:

I see otheus already pointed this out :

That ends my participation in this thread. Good luck to you in all things.

I see what your saying, and I appreciate the help. I have dropped this assignment and will come back to it in a week or so, once my course is complete. Its just not worth the headache or stress.

There was actually zero build up to this assignment, as far as a groundwork progression. We jumped from basic data in a link, and data from a form reposting on a page to this.

Not to mention that disclaimers of "Warning! This information is incorrect in the textbook. You will get an error if you use the syntax in the book." are all over the course lectures.

Thomson Learning's Book on CGI is pretty horrid. I was able to each myself SQL / MySQL syntax and never had issues like this. (I used WROX books though, so it might just be the book itself and how it is written)

If you make the last change that has been suggested your script will work.

Bye.