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From: "James Leutri" <james@club-webb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: perl script help
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:35:33 -0400
Organization: Club-Webb Inc.
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If somone could explain why this script will not execute the command on
line 5 it would be greatly appreciated.
 Or if there is something else wrong? :).


--- perl script begins ---
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
&ReadParse;

open(OUT, "| glimpse -l -y $in{'string'}");
@result = <OUT>;
close(OUT);

$count = 0;

print "<html><head><title>Search Results for \"$in{'string'}\"</title></head
>\n<body bgcolor=#ffffff><H1>Search Results</H1><BR>\n";

for($count =0; $count < @result; $count++)
{ print "Here it is: $result[$count]<BR>\n";
}

print "\n</body></html>\n";

sub ReadParse {
  if (@_) {
    local (*in) = @_;
  }

  local ($i, $loc, $key, $val);

  # Read in text
  if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET") {
    $in = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
  } elsif ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "POST") {
    for ($i = 0; $i < $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}; $i++) {
      $in .= getc;
    }
  }

  @in = split(/&/,$in);

  foreach $i (0 .. $#in) {
    # Convert plus's to spaces
    $in[$i] =~ s/\+/ /g;

    # Convert %XX from hex numbers to alphanumeric
    $in[$i] =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;

    # Split into key and value.
    $loc = index($in[$i],"=");
    $key = substr($in[$i],0,$loc);
    $val = substr($in[$i],$loc+1);
    $in{$key} .= '\0' if (defined($in{$key})); # \0 is the multiple
separator
    $in{$key} .= $val;
  }

  return 1; # just for fun
}