I have been struggling with this for a while.  Any help would be appreciated.  Here's the perl snippet that links to the html:

       $ewstring = substr($string[$count - 1],3);

       $thisrow = $thisrow . "<td>" . $myfont . "<a href=/Operations/all.html#$ewstring style=text-decoration:none><font color=#000000>" . substr($string[$count - 1],3) . "</a>";

The variable $ewstring is created with names found in "all.html".  I would like to pass the value in $ewstring and display it at the top of "all.html".


You'll need to pass in the parameter in the form

?myval=$ewstring

rather that

#$ewstring

And then have the all.html URL point to a Perl (or PHP or something) script to do the substitution.   Personally I would go for PHP if it's on your server, as all you would need to do within the HTML is put in something like:

<?php print ($_REQUEST[myval]); >?

That's just a brief intro to the technique needed - you'll need to consider all the various security concerns if $ewstring can contain certain special characters, and to set up your web server to parse the all.html file as .php.

Graham,

Thanks for the reply.  But I thought all perl variables had to start with "$" and not "?".  Or am I missing the obvious?  BTW, I am a newbie at perl and html.

Thanks.

The "?" is the separator between a web page name and the parameters passed into that page as if a form had been filled in - that's the way to send variable data into the next page.  Basically, you're saying "I want a variable called myval in th enext page and it will contain what the $ewstring variable conatins on the curent page"

Thanks....

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