I think what happends is that even though you place the blank field there, the text is
still really there, try using the print command on the same page and take a look to
see if it actually does erase the data or does it just erase it in the form text area,
I had the same problem, I just let people delete the old text....
>>> Walt Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/06/02 12:50AM >>>
This one is a little hard to explain. I have a .cgi program that offers a
textarea form box. The contents are used to generate a text file that is
then used as an SSI in an html program. This text must be changed from
time to time.
In order to make it easier to modify the text, I grab the previous text and
put it into the form for editing. Problem is: if one wants to blank out
the text entirely by deleting everything and submitting it, to have nothing
placed in the text tile, the entire previous message reappears. The blank
form doesn't take.
Work around has been to place at least one blank space in the form. Then
everything works fine; I get a blank text field file. Rather than having
to explain to all other users to do this, it would be much better if one
could just delete the text (blank out the form) and submit, rather than
having to remember to put a space in. I don't know how to make this happen.
Here is the snippet:
my $textold;
open(EVENT, "<event2.txt") or die("Cannot open: $!");
$textold=<EVENT>;
close(EVENT) or die("Cannot close event2.txt: $!");
print <<FORMSTART;
<form method = "post" action = "eventput2.cgi">
<p><strong>Event Title: </strong>
<input name = "title" type = "text" size = "40"></p>
<strong>Enter Event Description & Details Here:</strong><br>
<textarea name = "comment" rows = "20" cols = "72">$textold</textarea></p>
.....
$textold is forwarded even when the blank is submitted empty. How to fix?
Thanks, Walt Sanders.
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