New Programmer
I recently have gotten interested in using CGI's to spruce up my pages. My final goal in all this is to somehow write to a txt document and display it on an HTML page.
It is to be used with other scripts in order to make stats for web RPG characters appear on a page.
Does anyone here know where I should start?
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The Neophyte coder
NeoWolf
The Neophyte coder
NeoWolf
Y-2-Casey posted this at 12:41 — 28th January 2000.
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Hiya-
If you are thinking of learning CGI, check out the resources at http://www.cgi-resources.com or http://www.cgi101.com.
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Casey Hansen
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Casey Hansen
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"Computer geeks with attuitude"
japhy posted this at 13:43 — 28th January 2000.
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Perl is definitely a good programming language to use for this task. It has exceptional string handling features, that will allow you to pull blocks of text from a text file effortlessly. Perl allows you to format a file to read from in a specific way, and then "redefine" what a "line" is, so that you can get a whole chunk of text (spanning several "conventional" lines) at once.
Perl will help. Learn the basics of Perl before you go reading the specifics of CGI.
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