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[Allan Greenier <agreenier@snet.net>]

Greetings,
I want to implement a simple search engine in PERL. I would appreciate
any advice, pointers to modules to use, finished code ect. I'm still a
newbie to theis fab language!

In a nutshell the user will type a word into an HTML form and send it to
my CGI. If all goes well the word they pick will be be in the name of an
html file on the web site. I want to return a web page with all names of
files that match as clickable links.

So I thought what I would do is make a list of all the file names on the
site and have the CGI compare the search word (using regular
expressions) against the items in the list, saving each "find" in a
holding list. At the end put the items of the holding list into the
return html page as links.

Suggestions of great modules to use ect are all welcome and appreciated.
However I would prefer "vanilla" Perl code over an esoteric module as
the ISP where this site will reside is kinda ornery. : - \

Thanks in advance...
Allan Greenier
AutoScript Applications

agreenier@snet.net
http://www.geocities.com/~autoscript

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