[Techtalk] Perl script how to

[Helen]

I have been researching and reading until I feel like I have banged my head
against a wall enough.  I am looking for help.  I have approached all of the
programmers in my area and I think I am in a different world.  None use
perl. They all program in C.  And I am not a programmer.

What I am trying to do is have an html page call up my expect scripts via
something like the select option and output the text to a text area on the
same html page that called it. One article said to use perl and that would
solve all my problems.  The problem is I don't know perl.  I can use cgi
scripts (if I could write them well) but I don't seem to get it right.  I
have tried to understand how to call the scripts, but I am getting nowhere
fast.  Frustration has hit a new high.

Does anyone know of either a good script that I can understand to make the
modifications to, or reccommend another method.  I can run the expect
scripts and the perl scripts manually, but I can't seem to be able to call
them from an html page or how to output the results to the same page.

Helen