Re: Web form to alter files is writing to file before submit button is pressed.

[tangent]

in reply to Web form to alter files is writing to file before submit button is pressed.

If you change the line

line(5,q(<input type="submit" value="Make changes">));

to:

line(5,q(<input type="submit" name="make_changes" value="Make changes"
+>));

then you can check if the button was clicked:

if ( $cgi->param("make_changes") ) ...

[Lady_Aleena]

I made this change, and it made a big difference. Thank you tangent for the help.