I have a rather complex script that reads from forms input and puts content into a |-delimited database, and then shows and build pages in various ways (yeah, just like DBMan and Links).

Now I want to split one form into two, say $title and $subtitle, but saving the result into the same string within two |'s, so that I don't have to rebuild the database, and without having to do too many changes in the script.

So, I want to change:
...
print "Title: <INPUT Name=\"title\" Size=40>\n";
...

to something like:
...
print "Title: <INPUT Name=\"toptitle\" Size=40>\n";
print "Title: <INPUT Name=\"subtitle\" Size=40>\n";

$toptitle+$subtitle=$title

... or however this is done in Perl.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Thanks
John

Well, assuming you are using DBMan or Links (i.e. form input is stored in %in), then you could do:

$in{'FieldInDatabase'} = $in{'TopTitle'} . $in{'BottomTitle'};

before you write the line out to the database.

Without any more specifics on how the rest of the script works, that's the best I can offer. =)

Cheers,

Alex