passing flags between forms

[elixabete]

I have a Perl/CGI script that generates four different HTML forms. I am passing values among them by using hidden fields. However I have noticed that I am not able to maintain the value of the "flag" I have created in order to monitor the frequency of one of the variables. Does anyone know why the flag variable gets reset?

Any comment will be appreciated.

Thank you

Eli

 

[goBoating]

From one call to a CGI program to the next, the program has no idea about what it just did. Each instance of the program running is completely indepedent. If you are setting a flag in the code and expecting it to increment with each call to the program, that won't work (unless you are rewriting it to disk after each run).

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[tsdragon]

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[elixabete]

Thank you "goBoating".
And how do I rewrite it back in the disk? I have tried positioning the variable in different locations within the script and that did not work.

eli