[ale] More on name=value

[Bert Hiddink]

Hello, Erik,

On 17 Jul 99, at 9:13, Eric Z. Ayers wrote: 
> SORRY!  I was thinking of it as a general shell script problem, not as
> running it from a web page...  If this were perl, it would be a snap...
> 
> 
> $ARGV[0]=~/=(.*)$/;
> $value=$1;
> 
> and you'd have your value out in a jiffy!
> 
> 
> -Eric.

I tried to work out the above and wrote a test.pl:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5

$ARGV[0]=~/=(.*)$/;
$value=$1;
print "$value\n\n";

Then ran from the shell:
test.pl name=15

Result was printed:
15

Then did it from my browser:
http://www.mysite/cgi-bin/test.pl?name=15

Nothing was printed (a blank page)?

What is going wrong here?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

-brt


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