FLASH: Text file admin perl script

[Mountain, Mike J]

Folks


A colleague of mine has developed a little perl app for me which allows you

to administer variables in a text file (add them, delete them etc.) it also

counts the number of field variables and plonks an array variable at the

end. eg.


fields1=this is the first headline

&fields2=This is the third headline

&fields3=Anything can go here

&fields4=http://www.anythingyouwantreally.com

&array=4


as you can see the 2nd headline says "This is the third headline" this is

because the form was used to delete the second headline which slides

everything else down in the order by one. I'm using this internally to let

people administer a dynamic ticker that I'm building that duplicates an mc

determined by the array no, then reads the individual text from the files ,

it's nearly finished and looking good.


The fact of the matter is we don't mind open sourcing this as it's quite

useful, but my external CGI bin folder doesn't seem to be running properly

at the mo', so if there are any offers from kind souls willing to host (and

ultimately allow downloads) from their site we'd be most grateful.


Cheers


Mike M




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