Merging FrontPage HTML into Perl

[Ari Passopolos]

I have a form response developed in FrontPage that I want to cut and
paste into a perl script. I know I have to escape certain characters--*
$ @ ( ) { } [ ]--but that's not my issue.

What bothers me is a bunch of code that begins ' <!--webbot
bot="ImageMap" ' and ends ' <!--webbot bot="ImageMap" endspan
i-checksum="16085" --> '.

All this stuff seems related to graphics on the page. I'm not using
includes or other crap specific to FrontPage. My quandary is that if I
rip the stuff out, the graphics don't display. If I leave it in, Perl
doesn't recognize it. Help!

Ari

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I have a form response

A form *response*? What's that?

developed in FrontPage that I want to cut and
paste into a perl script. I know I have to escape certain characters--*
$ @ ( ) { } [ ]

In which context would you need to escape all those characters?

--but that's not my issue.

What bothers me is a bunch of code that begins ' <!--webbot
bot="ImageMap" ' and ends ' <!--webbot bot="ImageMap" endspan
i-checksum="16085" --> '.

All this stuff seems related to graphics on the page. I'm not using
includes or other crap specific to FrontPage. My quandary is that if I
rip the stuff out, the graphics don't display. If I leave it in, Perl
doesn't recognize it.

Such comment tags are not Perl code, so you cannot reasonably expect
Perl to "recognize" them. If you have them printed to STDOUT from a CGI
script written in Perl, they will certainly be passed to the web server,
and supposedly included in the HTML source code. I have no idea if
that's sufficient for them to serve their intended purpose, though.

Your problem seems to have very little to do with Perl, and
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi is probably a more suitable newsgroup.