CGI question

[Brandon Gohsman]

Greetings,

I have a client who pays a monthly fee for delayed stock data from a data
service. To get the data, you call a CGI script from your web page with a
few arguments. A text-only file is returned with the data for their stock
symbol. This all works fine and dandy.

My problem is that the unformatted text looks ugly when poured into their
well designed web site layout. And, since there are no HTML tags, I can't
even use JavaScript to make dynamic changes. So what I want to do is capture
this returned text in an array or a series of scalars using Perl. Once I get
that to work, I can perform various sub-string functions to tear the text
apart, build a web page and return it.

Right now, I am at a loss on how to call one CGI script with another and
capture the returned text. The rest of it seems fairly straight forward if I
can just get that far.

If anyone knows how to do this or can point me in a direction that I haven't
gone, that would be great. Until then, I'll continue to scour my reference
books.

Thanks,

Brandon Gohsman
Square One Design
560 5th Street NW, Suite 301
Grand Rapids, MI 49504

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