UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm sorry if I offended you by writing a new post. I saw that I didn't make myself clear enough with the other one, so I decided to try again in the hope that I could get some help.

Yes I was talking about Perl and yes I don't know anything about programming. That is why I am asking questions in the dummie section.
I'm running html threw a very simple cgi program (if it could be called that) so that I can perform some things that are not possible (at least not as easy) with a normal html page.

Thank you for the suggestions, I'll try them. Hopefully they will work as I planned. Thank you again.

Just as a comment on forum etiquette, it's better to collect all information about a problem in one place. So if you need to add information, you can edit your previous posting (if it hasn't received any replies yet) or follow up with more information.

If you explain the context of what you want to achieve, rather than delve directly into the mechanics of a solution you think will work, somebody might be able to come up with a better solution than the one you were thinking of. It also helps bring out implicit requirements which are not obvious if you only describe the details.

You might be very busy, but in the four weeks you seem to have been grappling with this, you could have spent an afternoon on reading a Perl intro. Even if you are not directly planning to learn Perl, knowing a little about the language will help you ask better questions, and save you time by helping you avoid the "scattershot programming" approach (change the script randomly until you no longer get syntax errors, then wonder why it doesn't do what you hoped it would).

I understand you and see what you mean. I'll try to be more direct in the future. As to the small "program" that I am making: All the big things that I need it to do are ready. I can use it the way it is know and it would to all the things I need, specially with the help you gave me yesterday with:

If you see me asking any more questions it will only be to make it faster for me to build the webpage.

Thanks again for all you help