Hi, I wander if anyone can help please:

I am trying to link to a sub routine which will print another field of data from the flat file related to the record.

open (FILE,"../../etl/data/register.txt");
while ($mfile=<FILE>){ if($mfile=~/$plats/){
@bank=split/\t/,$mfile;
$search++;
#$namn=@bank[0];
$position=@bank[1];
$description=@bank[2];
$datpost=@bank[3];
$jobref=@bank[4];
$details=@bank[5];
print "<tr>
   <td width='70' valign='top'><b>Position:</b></td>
   <td><font size='3'>$position </font></td>
   </tr>
 <tr>
   <td width='45' valign='top'><b>Description:</b></td>
   <td valign='middle'><font size='2'>$description </font></td>
   <td width='150' align='center' valign='middle'><font size='2'>&raquo; <********a href='more_details();*******'>View more details </a></font></td>
</tr>";
**********sub more_details {
  print "<tr>
   <td width='70' valign='top'><b>More details:</b></td>
   <td><font size='3'>$details </font></td>
   </tr>";
}***********

I have searched everywhere but cannot find out how I could possibly use the href tag to link to a sub routine.  Could you help please?

I have marked the areas of attention with **** to help identify the areas in questions.  I would appreciate any help.

Thank you.


Abdul ... I'm teaching a different language and also on the road at the moment ... my head just didn't click into gear when I looked.  I'll be back in 24 hours or so on this one.

Abdul, I thing the immediate answer is that you need your code to read something like ...

......< a href="  .more_details(). "> more details ....

and have the more_details subroutine use the return statement to pass back a URL that you want to link to.


If you want to re-run the same page but have the more_details subroutine provide extra text in the new page, then you'll need to add something onto the URL (perhaps a  parameter such as ?details=1 ) which you can check for in the subsequent page, and so provide the extra information requested.

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